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    Jacob Riis

    Photographer

    Jacob August Riiswas a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. 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... (wikipedia)

    • Born in Ribe, Denmark
    • Died On 5/26/1914

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