How the Other Half Lives

Jacob A Riis author Lucy Sante editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:1st Nov '97

Should be back in stock very soon

How the Other Half Lives cover

First published in 1890, this is the author's study of the slums of New York, where Italians, Jews, "Bohemians", Blacks and Chinese struggled against the effects of poverty, alcohol and lack of education. The author's use of photographs to put faces to his stories is recognized as a landmark in photojournalism and as a result of his book, many reforms did take place to assist New York's poor.

ISBN: 9780140436792

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 12mm

Weight: 187g

256 pages