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Jacob Riis
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American photographer, journalist and activist (1849–1914)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1849
- Died
- 1914
- Works
- 49
Top works
- The making of an American
- Santa Claus Tales for Kids
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Hero tales of the far North
- How the other half lives
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Colombo
- Active from
- 1994-07-16
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 13
Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/J
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A power primer.
· 1992 · cited 41,576x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
- A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales
· 1960 · cited 31,942x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
· 2013 · cited 16,953x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it—but all that had gone before.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1849-05-03 ) May 3, 1849, Ribe , Denmark
- Died
- May 26, 1914 (1914-05-26) (aged 65), Barre, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Occupations
- Photographer journalist activist
- Known for
- Social reform
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Jacob August Riis (/riːs/ REESS; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography.
Riis endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. He was an early proponent of the newly practicable casual photography and one of the first to adopt photographic flash. 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 poor living conditions of poor people by exposing these conditions to the middle and upper classes.
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