| Names: | Born: Jacob August Riis
Other: Jacob Riis
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| | Dates: | 1849, 3 May - 1914, 26 May | | Born: | Denmark, Ribe | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
American photographer born in Denmark - noted for his shots of the slums of New York.Preparing biographies
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Alland Sr, Alexander, 1993, Jacob A. Riis: Photographer and Citizen, (New York: Aperture) [LL_REF:880]
Riis, Jacob A, 1890, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons) [LL_REF:881]
Yochelson, Bonnie & Czitrom, Daniel, 2007, Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York, (New York: New Press) [LL_REF:882]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
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Family history
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Exhibitions on this website |
 | Jacob August Riis: How the Other Half Live: Book covers |
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All photographs by this photographer
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.86 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.434-435
• International Center of Photography 1999 Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection (New York: A Bulfinch Press Book) p.226 [Includes a well written short biography on Jacob A. Riis with example plate(s) earlier in book.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.221-222 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
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