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the Other Half Lives, Riis offers the audience a glimpse into the unsettling and unnoticed reality of the urban poverty in America at the turn of the 19th century. Not only he revealed the dark side of the society, he also showed the urgent need for change. Riis used emotional as well as logical appeal to support his argument in favor of the need for a social reform. By combining powerful pictures and detailed annotations accounting the conditions of life in the New York, Riis made How the Other Half

During the late 19th century and early 20th century, America increased drastically in industrialization, consumerism, and urbanization. With these increases a “Mass Consumerism” movement began and effected the middle class more than others. From the increase in consumerism, Thorstein Veblen introduced a new phrase called conspicuous consumption. This was indicated towards wealthy Americans that the best way to prove superiority is to show off their wealth. This negatively effected Americans and

In the novel, Ragtime author, El Doctorow, depicts America during the Gilded Age. Jacob Riis, one of the characters in the book, is a journalist who exposed the condition that immigrants lived in during the 19th century. Jacob Riis photographed the tenements that immigrants settled in and how they were all clustered into one small apartment. During this era, Robber Barons such J.P Morgan controlled the financial industry and resources in the United States. Despite that El Doctorow creates an appearance

for Jacob Riis it was not free to publish his photographs or for the public to access them. More importantly, the veracity of his images was compromised for cost. For instance, when part of his works How the Other Half Lives and Children of the Poor were published in Scribner’s Magazine his photographs were printed as illustrations that often were not copied exactly or as halftones. Artists corrected flattened perspectives, removed out-of-focus areas and added narrative incident to Riis’ photographs

Social Scene, the powerful photography that Hine and Riis have captured of immigrants encapsulate the need for change; furthering the separation of their photojournalism from illustrative and recreational art. From Hine documenting much of the practices of child labor, to Riis exposing the harsh living conditions of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, (Maher) both photographers comply to a code of ethics and sense of journalistic integrity— Riis and Hine showcase the truth behind the photos in a way

story of photography and of a man names Jacob Riis. Riis came from Scandinavia as a young man and moved to the United States. Riis firsthand experienced the bad conditions in the heart of the slums of New York. He worked from place to place, doing odd jobs until he found a job as a police reporter for the New York Tribune. Riis lived in a slum called “The Bend.” When he became a reporter, Riis aspired to make people see the awful conditions of “The Bend.” Riis was continuously disappointed because his

GENERAL INTRODUCTION. GIVE HISTORICAL CONTEXT. Both Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis expose injustice in society; however, Lewis establishes a connection between the unfulfilling American dream and hypocrisy of society in the 1920s in the middle class, and Riis exposes the gap between the impoverished and dangerous conditions of the poor and the uncaring or uneducated middle- and upper-class in the context of New York. Set in the 1920s, Babbitt captures both

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Riis rejected the notion that the ethnic communities were spontaneously created, instead, he believes that they were created by the landlords themselves. The landlords had great influence over what area African Americans would live in, as well as what tenements the could buy. To Riis, it was the white landlords who drew the color line in New York city because of their control and influence

people's issues to be heard were known as Progressives or Progressive Reformers. Progressive Reformers like, Margaret Sanger and Jacob Riis wanted the problems of the poor to be no longer ignored