Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis (Ribe, May 3, 1849 - Barre, May 26, 1914) was a Danish journalist and photographer emigrated to New York. He was very socially moved and due to his intrusive photo reports of living conditions in the slums in New York, significant improvements were made.
Riis was born in Ribe and emigrated to New York in 1870. He lived in poor conditions for some time, but found a job at the Evening Sun in 1873. He wrote articles and taught himself the art of photography. His work has had a lot of influence on American documentary photojournalism.
In 1888 he left the Sun and began working on his book How the Other Half Lives. He was one of the first photographers who used flashlight powder, which also allowed him to photograph indoors and evenings. The following years he continued writing and giving lectures on poverty in the slums.
He died three weeks after his 65th birthday. Examples of his work
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