{"product_id":"rediscovering-jacob-riis-the-reformer-his-journalism-and-his-photographs-9781595581990","title":"Rediscovering Jacob Riis: The Reformer  His Journalism  and His Photographs","description":"\u003cp\u003eA provocative new illustrated history of the famed early chronicler of New Yorks immigrant poor  seen here as an opportunistic  camera-toting social reformer whose legacy lives on.  \"I dont remember my mother or my aunts and uncles talking of their father as a photographer....In his lettersI have read most of themhe never mentions a camera.\"J. Riis Owre (grandson of Jacob Riis)  More than ninety years after his death  Jacob Riis maintains a stubbornly persistent hold on the American imagination. Remembered as a pioneering photographer  he was the first to document the state of New Yorks slums  publicizing in haunting photographs the plight of the urban poor at the height of European immigration to the city. But Riis confessed to being \"no good at all as a photographer\" and in recent years has been disparaged for racist views and political opportunism.  In Rediscovering Jacob Riis  Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom address the complex legacy of the pioneering social reformer. In a work of highly original scholarship  they reclaim Riis from the art camp  relocating him in the field of social and cultural history. Their provocative new book reveals Riis to be an inspired self-promoter who  although neither an original thinker nor a serious photographer  nevertheless framed the discussion of urban poverty in terms still relevant today.  Extensively illustrated with Riiss images  Rediscovering Jacob Riis is revisionist history at its best  as appealing to photographers  journalists  and social historians as it is to the general reader.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652932853813,"sku":"ByrdShop_1595581995","price":211.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781595581990.jpg?v=1781853473","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rediscovering-jacob-riis-the-reformer-his-journalism-and-his-photographs-9781595581990","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}