Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome to the guilded age ric On Jun 18, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information