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May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G1595581995I4N00
Profiles the late-nineteenth-century photographer most remembered for his depictions of New York's urban poor at the height of European immigration, in a visual study that evaluates his work as a proponent of social reform.
Product Description: Book by Yochelson Bonnie Czitrom Daniel
Titolo: Rediscovering Jacob Riis: The Reformer, His ...
Casa editrice: New Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket
Da: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A provocative new illustrated history of the famed early chronicler of New York's immigrant poor, seen here as an opportunistic, camera-toting social reformer whose legacy lives on. I don't remember my mother or my aunts and uncles talking of their father as a photographer.In his letters--I have read most of them--he 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 York's 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 Riis's 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. Codice articolo 418673
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Da: The Corner Bookshop, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Owner name, else cover and pages fine. Dust jacket near fine. Codice articolo 086889
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Da: GridFreed, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: New. Advanced reader (paperback), same as hardcover. Codice articolo 100-47947
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Da: Riverwash Books (IOBA), Prescott, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 268 pp. Photos. Index. Notes. Spine gently bumped. Jacket has light edgewear. Prev owner's discard stamp on the ffep. A study of thissocial reformer, journalist and pioneer photographer. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Codice articolo HIS3034
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Da: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Codice articolo Q-1595581995
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Da: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First. Illus. 8vo, two-toned boards, d.w. New York: New Press, (2007). Very good. Codice articolo 240089
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