Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis was born is Ribe, Denmark on May 3rd, 1849 and immigrated to the US in 1870. He became a police reporter for the New York Tribune and found his new position to try and bridge the gap between the rich and poor in New York. He used flash powder to take images at night, something that few other photographers did at the time.He made a book titled How the Other Half Lives. After publishing many more books and causing a public reaction to the images, earning the nickname "godfather of investigative journalism" he died in Barrie, Massachusetts on May 26th, 1914.



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