Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Copy) City Within Andria Lo and Valerie Luu

Andria Lo and Valerie Luu have been interviewing and photographing Chinatown's most fashionable elders on their blog and Instagram

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New York entered 1986 as a city reborn

and Philomena Marano who co-founded the Coney Island Hysterical Society in the 1980’s

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Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Copy) City Within Andria Lo and Valerie LuuBefore publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Livesa photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New Yorks tenement houses, home to three quarters of the citys populationJacob Riis (1849 1914) spent his first years in the United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, barely surviving on his carpentry skills until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. These early experiences provided Riis with an understanding of what it