The names Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis have now become synonymous with the instigation of urban reform efforts. The two are regarded as pioneers in eradicating the problems on which they focused; Hine’s being child labour and Riis’s tenement housing. When questioning whether writing and images from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries inform us of ‘solutions’ to the aforementioned issues‚ I would conclude that an adequate answer cannot be formulated without reference to their work. For
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Photographs “In the early 20th century‚ Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine used the new medium of photography to document the experiences of the working poor. Riis is best known for his investigations of life in 9the New York City tenements‚ while Hine produced several photo essays on child labor.“ (Ackerman 1) Mr. Jacob August Riis was born in Ribe‚ Denmark on May 3rd 1849 and died on May 26th 1914. Riis was a journalist and social reformer. Riis is the “son of Niels Edward Riis‚ a Latin teacher‚ and Carolina Lundholm
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Jacob Riis played a central role in the debate over the causes and consequences of urban problems in the late 19th century. Riis was a photographer who started as a poor immigrant from Denmark. Initially Riis worked low paying jobs until he eventually found his calling in police reports and later photography. As a police reporter‚ Riis had unique access to the city’s slums. In the evenings‚ he would accompany law enforcement and members of the health department on raids of the tenements‚ witnessing
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the wealthy-class and the imminent growing presence of poor‚ hopeless immigrants is prominent from the interaction between Jacob Riis and Stanford White. Jacob Riis is a newspaper reporter and reformer who writes about the need of housing for the poor‚ while Stanford White is a renowned‚ affluent architect. There was a clear distinction between each of the two’s vision. Jacob Riis was motivated with the immigrant’s condition from the grim sight he saw happening. “Children died of mild colds or slight
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article‚ “The Mirror with a Memory” by James west Davidson and Lytle‚ the authors tell the story of Jacob Riis and the impact that photography can have on a population. The article discusses the personal views and experiences of Jacob Riis in regards to his views of poverty and social connection of less fortunate individuals and communities in the late 1800s to early 1900s. An immigrant himself‚ Riis was able to experience firsthand the horrific conditions in the slums of New York City. He came to
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The book " How the other half lives" was published in October 1890 and this book proved this quote true " Every thing that glitters is not gold ( Shakespeare)" Jacob Riis writer of this book showed the reality of New York and proved that life was not only rich and amazing in New York. He showed the other side of a picture which was unknown by most of the people lived in America. In this book Jacob Riis wrote about the slum life in New York specially life of poor immigrants. He also showed their
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As the reading demonstrated‚ Jacob A. Riis may be a social reformer but perhaps more racist in his expressions. He fought to eradicate the horrible living conditions in the lower East Side of New York. He too tasted part of the harsh life as a poor immigrant with very little to eat on daily basics‚ hunger‚ homelessness and very suicidal. Nevertheless‚ Riis made it an objective to study the “slum” in which poor people living their lives by judging instead of trying to identify them. He just felt
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amount of credit for the success of the Progressive movement. Notable muckrakers Jane Addams and Jacob Riis showed determination towards there being a change; each made sure to use their abilities to aid in not only a social way‚ but ask economically and politically‚ even to this day what they’ve done has made a massive impact. A native of Denmark‚ Jacob Riis moved to the US in 1870 to pursue work. Riis worked as a police reporter‚ but eventually became a social reformer. He fought to eliminate the
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s film The Lives of Other’s (2005) is set in East Berlin during the socialist reign from November 1984‚ up until the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. The political context plays a significance role not only in the film’s subject matter but also in its cinematography‚ which exploits the voyeuristic tendencies of the audience‚ reflecting the surveillance of the Stasi Secret Police officers. The film follows a loyal socialist and playwright‚ Georg Dreyman who becomes
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Vaynberg‚ Idelle English B February 21‚ 2011 Personal Revolution A world without human rights would be disastrous and dangerous for everybody‚ and additionally‚ a drastic change for many people. The Lives of Others is a fictional foreign film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. This movie focuses on the life of a writer named Georg Dreyman as he is monitored by a Stasi officer named Hauptmann Wiesler in the German Democratic Republic in 1984. Wiesler begins to change through this
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