What Did How the Other Half Lives Exposed?
How the Other Half Lives Was a Pioneering Work of Photojournalism by Jacob Riis, Documenting the Squalid Living Conditions in New York City Slums in the 1880S...
How the Other Half Lives was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class.
What was exposed in How the Other Half Lives?
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the 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.
What was Jacob Riis trying to expose?
While living in New York, Riis experienced poverty and became a police reporter writing about the quality of life in the slums. ... He attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes.
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