Author: Riis, Jacob A.
Title: How the Other Half Lives; Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Description: Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970. Reprint of 1980 Edition. Hardcover. Grey DJ with photo illustration and white lettering; brown cloth with silver lettering; xix, 246 pp.; richly illustrated. Included in this volume are forty-five of the original Riis photographs, which illustrate vividly, sometimes with great pathos, the scenes he describes in the text and which earned him the title "father of the American documentary." Six contemporary line drawings, showing views of tenement blocks and their floor plans, further augment thsi edition of Riis's work -- an exact reprinting, except for modernization of spelling and punctuation, of the text and appeandix of the first edition of November 1890. -- DJ. Good DJ, VG book (Ex art library with a sticker on DJ spine and rear endpaper; DJ is moderately edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; boards are lightly edgeworn; textblock edges are lightly smudged; interior is extremely clean; binding is solid.) .

Keywords: Photography, Jacob A. Riis, Tenement Houses, New York, Poverty ; New York Tenement Housing ; ;


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