Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York

A 1900s New York portrait that's "an evocative and valuable reminder . . . of one unrelenting individual's ability to make a difference" (New York Times).

Before publishing How the Other Half Lives—a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York's tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city's population—Jacob Riis was an itinerant laborer until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. Experiencing what it was like to be poor in the immigrant communities that populated...