Comparison: Jacob Riis & Mary Ellen Mark

People in documentary pictures frequently hear that "pictures are worth a thousand words." When a person sees a picture it may take them back to their past, or they may take them to places they have never done. The picture can explain the scene in a way that can not text. A picture which is a division of a documentary picture is good at stepping on words when he fails. Documentary pictures were first introduced in the 20th century when photos were first used as visual languages.

This movement is in sharp contrast to the American "art" picture of the same period. However, in the early 20th century, photographers from Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, and FSA and New York Photographic Union began trends of humanistic photography for the first time. A book such as Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor (American withdrawal in 1939), Walker Evans and James Agee (celebrity of 1941 celebrity), Margaret Bourke - White and Erskine Caldwell were published (1937) year) Arthur Rothstein and William Saroyan (Looking at us, ..., 1967). Despite the red panic in the 1950s and McCarthyism (Photo Prohibition Federation), it was widely advertised in "Human Family" exhibition and became obvious in Helen Levitt, a photo article developed by W. Eugene Smith in the 1950s It was. Street photographs from the 1950s to the 1990s, Vivian Meyer, and Bruce Davidson (including his east 100th street) are works of Eugene Richards and Mary - Ellen Mark.

Born in Ribe, Denmark, Jacob Riis is the third child of the 15 neighbors of the local newspaper Niels Riis and teacher and editor of housewife Carolina Riis, Niels Riis. Charles Dickens and James Fenimore Cooper were his favorites, Rice was influenced by his stern father and the author he read. At the age of 11, Riis brother drowned. Riis will be annoyed that his brothers' empty chair is staring at his brother's sky table at the table during the rest of his life. At the age of 12, Riis expressed a surprise to everyone who knew him, as he donated the Christmas present he received to the poor Ribe family when no one was short of money. When Riis was sixteen he fell in love with Elisabeth Gortz but was rejected. He looked for a carpenter's work and moved to Copenhagen with frustration

Jacob Riis born in Lieber, Denmark, was born in 15 children of Niels Edward Riis (a teacher and author of a local Ribe newspaper) and Carolina Riis (née Bendsine Lundholm), one of whom grew up in an orphan's niece I am the third housewife. . Of the 15 people, Jacob, sister and foster only survived the 20th century. Lease was influenced by his father and liked to destroy his school lease. His father persuaded him to read Charles Dickens' magazine and James Fenimore Cooper's novel (and improve his English) throughout the year.