Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis, completely Jacob August Riis, (May 3, 1849 Lieber, Denmark, 26 May 1914, Barre, Massachusetts, USA), American newspaper reporter, social reformer, photographer, his work " How the Others "" Half-Life "(1890) shocked the reader's conscience and gave a practical explanation of the situation in the slums of New York City.

Riis moved to the United States at the age of 21 and did a variety of work to experience the essential points of city life. In 1873, he became a police reporter and was assigned to the Lower East Side of New York City where he found that the infant mortality rate is one tenth in some families.

In the late 1880s, Rice started flashing the inside and outside of New York's slums with a flashlight. These pictures are examples of flash photographs earlier. Riis used these images to dramatize his lectures and books and the printing of those photos used in "How Other Half-Life" helped make books popular . However, Riis' revelation and writing style ensures a broad reader: he stated in the introduction of the book that "his story draws from a simple public record and is dark enough to bring cold to anyone" It was. Theodore Roosevelt became the US president in 1901 and personally answers Rees. "I will read and help your book." The success of this book makes Riis famous, "How about the other half live" New York's first important law to control the evil of the Tang's house . It has also become an important predecessor to the news formed in the United States since 1900.

Among the many other books of Rice, the most remarkable is his autobiography "Making in America" ​​(1901).

Many monuments around New York City are named Riis. Among them, Jacob Riis Park and Jacob Riis Triangle are in Queens named after him. Jacob August Riis School is a public school in New York City on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Jacob Riis Settlement House is a multiservice community organization located in Queensbridge Houses in Queens, Long Island City.

Jacob Riis, born in Lieber, Denmark, was among the fifteen children of Niels Edward Riis (a teacher and author of the local Ribe newspaper) and Carolina Riis (one of which was an orphan prostitute and grew up) It is the third housewife. . Among 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.

Born in Ribe, Denmark, Jacob Riis is the third child of the 15 newspapers of the local newspaper Niels Riis and housewife Carolina Riis teacher and editor 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 suffer during the rest of his life while the drowning brothers and mothers are looking at the brothers' empty chairs by the table. 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 had the money. When Riis was 16 years old, he fell in love with Elisabeth Gortz, but he was refused. He moved to Copenhagen with frustration who was looking for a carpenter's job.