Books by Jacob A. Riis

A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the squalid living conditions of 'the other half', who might well have inhabited another country.

This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.

Riis, som præsident Theodore Roosevelt kaldte New Yorks nyttigste borger, skrev i sin tid tre dagbøger. Den ene er gået tabt, men de to andre udgives nu for første gang. De handler om hans ulykkelige kærlighed til Elisabeth Giørtz fra hjembyen Ribe og skildrer de ubarmhjertige vilkår, der mødte de hundredtusinde immigranter, der ankom til Amerika i slutningen af 1800-tallet.