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A pioneer in the use of photography as an agent of social reform, Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States in 1870. While working as a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he did a series of exposés on slum conditions in a series of tenement photographs on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which led him to view photography as a way of communicating the need for slum reform to the public. He made photographs of these areas and published articles and gave lectures that had significant results, including the establishment of the Tenement House Commission in 1884. In 1888, Riis left the Tribune to work for the Evening Sun, where he began making the photographs that would be reproduced as engravings and halftones in How the Other Half Lives, his celebrated work documenting the living conditions of the poor, which was published to widespread acclaim in 1890. Continuing to focus on photography about poverty during the last twenty-five years of his life, Riis produced other books on similar topics, along with other writings and lantern slide lectures on themes relating to the impro

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Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914)

Reporter, photographer, author, lecturer and social reformer. The most influential Danish-American of all time. Pioneer of photojournalism. Describes as the most useful citizen by president Theodore Roosevelt.

One of the most influential journalists and social reformers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jacob A. Riis documented and helped to improve the living conditions of millions of poor immigrants in New York.

Now, Museum of Southwest Jutland has created an exciting museum in Mr. Riis’ hometown in Denmark – inside the very building in which he grew up – which both celebrates the life and legacy of Mr. Riis while simultaneously exploring the themes he famously wrote about and photographed – immigration, poverty, education and social reform.

These topics are still, if not more, relevant today. In the media, in politics and in academia, they are burning issues of our times.

Jacob August Riis (1849–1914) was a journalist and social reformer in late 19th and early 20th century New York. He steadily publicized the crises in poverty, housing an

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Jacob Riis

American photographer, journalist and activist (1849–1914)

Jacob Riis
Riis in 1906
Born	(1849-05-03)May 3, 1849 Ribe, Denmark
Died	May 26, 1914(1914-05-26) (aged 65) Barre, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	Danish, American
Known for	Social reform, journalism, photography

Jacob August Riis (REESS; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-Americansocial reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century.^[1] He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. He was an early proponent of the newly practicable casual photography and one of the first to adopt photographic flash. While living in New York, Riis