The Battle With the Slum (Esprios Classics)

Jacob August Riis (May 3 1849 - May 26 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of model tenements in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. Additionally as one of the most famous proponents of the newly practicable casual photography he is considered one of the fathers of photography due to his very early adoption of flash in photography.