in Ribe, Denmark, Jacob Riis was the third of the 15 children (one of whom, an orphaned niece, was fostered) of Niels Edward Riis, a schoolteacher and... 59 KB (7,621 words) - 03:38, 28 April 2024 |
How the Other Half Lives (section Jacob Riis) Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s... 17 KB (2,270 words) - 19:36, 28 March 2024 |
American Realism (section Jacob Riis) Margaret Deland, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, and J. D. Salinger. Jacob August Riis (1849–1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer... 26 KB (3,249 words) - 05:38, 24 April 2024 |
Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot (category Photographs by Jacob Riis) Danish-American photographer Jacob Riis, in 1889. It was included in his photographic book How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890. Riis documented the poor... 5 KB (518 words) - 17:10, 4 January 2024 |
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street (category Photographs by Jacob Riis) Danish-American photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis in 1888. The photograph was possibly not taken by Riis but instead by one of his assistant photographers... 5 KB (521 words) - 16:23, 28 April 2024 |
Riis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Asbjørn 'Bear' Riis (born 1957), Danish professional wrestler Bendik Riis (1911–1988), Norwegian... 854 bytes (138 words) - 13:01, 11 July 2023 |
M. Paul Friedberg (section Jacob Riis Plaza) of Friedberg's most notable projects was the Jacob Riis Plaza, undertaken in the mid-1960s. The Jacob Riis Complex is a series of 14-story buildings along... 6 KB (686 words) - 17:58, 20 November 2023 |
Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street (category Photographs by Jacob Riis) American photographer Jacob Riis, probably in 1890. The designation of street arabs was given back then to homeless children. Riis took several pictures... 3 KB (370 words) - 14:20, 22 January 2024 |
ISBN 0-89236-681-8. "Jacob Riis Paintings, Bio, Ideas". The Art Story. Michael Burgan, Exposing Hidden Worlds: How Jacob Riis' Photos Became Tools for... 121 KB (2,654 words) - 14:05, 27 April 2024 |
through 1909 advocating for prison reform and prohibition of alcohol. Jacob Riis (1849–1914) – author of How the Other Half Lives, advocating for changes... 34 KB (4,206 words) - 16:07, 16 March 2024 |
boys that they are at Jacob Riis. The girls finally return there and on their way finally pass Fort Tilden. Upon arrival at Jacob Riis they see the boys are... 9 KB (1,097 words) - 09:48, 16 March 2024 |
and fishing spot on the north shore of the bay. Fort Tilden, between Jacob Riis Park and Breezy Point on the Rockaway peninsula, has some of the city's... 18 KB (1,899 words) - 22:06, 14 April 2024 |
on January 11, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2009. "Happy 60th Marcy and Jacob Riis House". Archived from the original on May 2, 2010. Retrieved October 24... 6 KB (385 words) - 10:21, 21 April 2024 |
of the Ashcan painters links them to such documentary photographers as Jacob Riis and Lewis W. Hine. Several Ashcan School painters derived from the area... 17 KB (2,119 words) - 09:33, 28 April 2024 |
Kelly Jack McManus Adolf Meyer J. P. Morgan Jesse Pomeroy Henry C. Potter Jacob Riis Theodore Roosevelt Lincoln Steffens Franz Boas The Alienist is set in... 29 KB (3,670 words) - 02:26, 22 July 2023 |
The Trench in Potter's Field (category Photographs by Jacob Riis) black and white photograph produced by Danish-American photographer Jacob A. Riis, probably in 1890, depicting a trench used as a mass grave for tenement... 4 KB (443 words) - 14:34, 24 November 2023 |
new form of documentary is the journalist and urban social reformer Jacob Riis. Riis was a New York police-beat reporter who had been converted to urban... 13 KB (1,564 words) - 21:40, 23 March 2024 |
massive urban renewal. Five Points was not the only slum in America. Jacob Riis, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine and others photographed many before World War... 158 KB (17,228 words) - 10:50, 21 April 2024 |