Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen
by Riis, Jacob A.; Alland, Alexander Sr. (Adams, Ansel - Preface)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0912334665
- ISBN 13
- 9780912334660
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About This Item
USA: Aperture, 1974. Book. Illus. by Riis, Jacob A.. Fair. Hardcover. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 220 pages. Riis "took pictures to document and expose the everyday misery of the despairing and often unseen poor." - from Introduction. "The remarkable journalist and reformer Jacob Riis was the forerunner in America's great tradition of documentary photography. This book brings together for the first time a full selection of Riis's photographs and a detailed account of his extraordinary years with a camera... To Riis, an immigrant struggling to expose human misery in the slums of New York nearly a century ago, such other possibilities as art and self-expression were of no concern. He was a muckraking journalist, to whom fact was the 'mightiest lever', and he took up the camera only because it offered new firepower in his crusade for social justice. Self-taught, he became America's first true journalist-photographer - a pioneer in the use of flash and in obtaining entry to and photographing previously inaccessible slum dwellings." - from dust jacket. "The photographs are direct and penetrating, as raw as the sordid scenes which they so often represent." - Beaumont Newhall, in "History of Photography". Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. A worthy reference copy of this unforgettable compilation..
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- Title
- Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen
- Author
- Riis, Jacob A.; Alland, Alexander Sr. (Adams, Ansel - Preface)
- Illustrator
- Riis, Jacob A.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0912334665
- ISBN 13
- 9780912334660
- Publisher
- Aperture
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- POOR RIIS JACOB A AUGUST New York City Poverty Immigrants Crime Gangs Archival Photographs Photography Photos Hell's Kitchen Underclass Social Justice Pioneer Photography united States Photojournalist Photojournalism
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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