Jacob Riis's Camera
Bringing Light to Tenement Children

Before Jacob Riis became a ground-breaking photographer, he was a twelve-year-old boy who hated Rag Hall; a rat-infested dwelling in his town of Ribe, Denmark. And before he arrived in America in 1870 to make his fortune and win the rich mill owner's daughter hand in marriage, he became a carpenter.......more

Problematically told story of photographer Jacob Riis's life and work. His methods were questionable, as the book tells how he surprised tenement residents to take and share their pictures without their consent (which the book does not treat as problematic). It also does not mention any tenement act......more

Jacob Riis's Camera Bringing Light to Tenement Children|52382847] A picture book biography written by Alexis O’Neill, illustrated by Gary Kelley Published by Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane, spring 2020 Although the setting for Jacob Riis’s Camera: Bringing Light to Tenement Children is......more

One sad thing about this book chronically the life of Jacob Riis is that need of the homeless and those in poverty is still here, more so exacerbated by the pandemic and the ineffective way it has been handled by the U.S. administration. Riis worked so hard himself and accomplished much over a hund......more

Jacob Riis, who became famous as a "muckraking" journalist advocating social reform, was born in Denmark in 1849. [As Wikipedia explains, the muckrakers were reform-minded investigative journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who exposed corruption in a variety of busin......more