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How the Other Half Lives

ISBN: 9780312574017 | 0312574010
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 9/22/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning of the Progressive era. David Leviatin edited this complete edition ofHow the Other Half Livesto be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide... MORE
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Forewordp. v
Prefacep. vii
A Note about the Text and Imagesp. xi
List of Map and Illustrationsp. xv
Introduction: Framing the Poor-The Irresistibility of How the Other Half Livesp. 1
The Flash: Jacob Riis Discovers Lightp. 1
The American Scene: The Search for Orderp. 9
How the Other Half Looks: Interpreting Riis's View of Povertyp. 31
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New Yorkp. 51
Related Documentsp. 273
Jacob A. Riis, The Other Half and How They Live: Story in Pictures, November 9, 1891p. 273
Six Illustrations from the 1890 Edition of How the Other Half Livesp. 278
Appendixes
A Jacob A. Riis Chronology (1849-1923)p. 284
Questions for Considerationp. 287
Selected Bibliographyp. 289
Indexp. 291
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DAVID LEVIATIN (Ph.D., Harvard) has taught American studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the University of Rhode Island, and Charles University in Prague. In addition to the publication of numerous articles, Leviatin is the author of Prague Spring: Notes and Voices from the New World (1993) and Followers of the Trail: Jewish Working-Class Radicals in America (1989). He is also a freelance photographer whose photos have appeared in several major publications including the New York Times Magazine.


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