| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York. By Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom. (New York: New Press, 2007. xx, 268 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-59558-199-0.)

Jacob Riis has long held an iconic place among U.S. social historians, offering students and scholars what has seemed like unmediated access to the lives of immigrants in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century. I have been using slides of his photographs in an undergraduate immigration course for two decades. In this context, Rediscovering Jacob Riis will prove a valuable resource in employing the Riis collection of photographs in a more thoughtful and critical way. No longer will historians simply view Riis as the father of documentary photography in a continuum running from Riis to Lewis Hine to the New Deal photographers of the Farm Security Administration. They will be able to draw on a much more complex and rich understanding of Riis as a social reformer and observer of New York City in his lifetime.

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