[Leica] OT Street Shooting in 1890

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

I have the book. Indeed, Jacob Riis is one of the Great Danes who ventured 
out into the big world and did good things.

Cheers,
Nathan

On 18 Jun 2013, at 21:05, Sonny Carter wrote:

> Fascinating
> 
> Pictures here:
> 
> http://petapixel.com/2013/06/16/how-the-other-half-lives-photographs-of-nycs-underbelly-in-the-1890s/
> 
> Shorter_url<http://petapixel.com/2013/06/16/how-the-other-half-lives-photographs-of-nycs-underbelly-in-the-1890s/>
> 
> 
> Jacob A. Riis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis> arrived in New York
> in 1870. As the economy slowed, the Danish American photographer found
> himself among the many other immigrants in the area whose daily life
> consisted of joblessness, hunger, homelessness, and thoughts of suicide. So
> when he finally found work as a police reporter in 1877, he made it his
> mission to reveal the crime and poverty of New York City?s East Side slum
> district to the world.
> 
> The resulting book, *How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements
> of New 
> York<http://journalism.nyu.edu/publishing/archives/portfolio/books/book287.html>
> *, was published in 1890, and is still considered ?a landmark in the annals
> of social reform.? Filled with pictures, sketches and graphic descriptions
> of the un-imaginable living conditions he found, the book forced the topic
> of tenement reform to the forefront of every New Yorker?s attention.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> 
> USA
> 
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