JACOB A. RIIS: Photographer & Citizen.
Released: Jan 01, 1974
Publisher: Millerton: Aperture, 1974
Format: Hardcover, 220 pages
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Description:
A biography of the remarkable journalist and reformer, Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914), America's first journalist-photographer. Alexander Alland (1902-1989), a photographer, editor and photo-historian, found Riis' lost negatives after a five-year search, donated them to the Museum of the City of New York, and mounted an exhibition of prints, which appear here for the first time. Photographs by Jacob A. Riis; text by Alexander Alland, Sr.; Preface by Ansel Adams. 220 pages; 82 full-page b&w plates; 10.75 x 9.25 inches.
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