Jacob Riis

 

1. Riis, from How the Other Half Lives (1890) [4 slides

Black and Tan Dive

Five Cents a Spot

Bandit's Roost

Street Arabs

*closer look at others, however, shows more complex agenda.

2.a. Lawrence, Richard Hoe, "Bandit's Roost" [1887]
b. Riis, Jacob "Bandit's Roost" [1887]

*shows how he cropping original to make more menacing, add to sense he guiding viewer into a mystery which it dangerous to enter alone (see Trachtenberg; also Stange, pp. 8-9).

3. a. Riis/ Lawrence "Robbing a Lush"
b. Anon., "The New York 'Divers',",from National Police Gazette, 1846

4. a. Riis, "Washing Up" (1880s)
b. Anon."The Newsboys Lodging House," Harper's Weekly 1867.

5.a.Riis, "Street Arabs," [1880s]
b. F. Beard, "The Fortunes of a Street Waif,"