Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in the United States of America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography.
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Works in Collection
22 works
"I Scrubs" - Katie, Who Keeps House on West Forty-Ninth S...
Jacob August Riis
1890
Ancient Lodger, Eldridge Street Police Station
Jacob August Riis
1890
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street
Jacob August Riis
1888
Blind Beggar
Jacob August Riis
1888
Bohemian Cigarmakers at Work in Their Tenement
Jacob August Riis
1889
East Side Public School. A Class in the Condemned Essex M...
Jacob August Riis
1888-95
In Poverty Gap, West 28th Street: An English Coal-heaver'...
Jacob August Riis
1889
In a Dive
Jacob August Riis
1895
Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot
Jacob August Riis
1889
Minding the Baby. Scene in Gotham Court
Jacob August Riis
1889
Police Station Lodgers in Elizabeth Street Station
Jacob August Riis
1888-95
Police Station Lodgers in Oak Street Station
Jacob August Riis
1890
Prayer Time in the Nursery, Five Points House of Industry
Jacob August Riis
1889
Reporter Office at 301 Mulberry Street
Jacob August Riis
1888
Sabbath Eve in a Coal Celler, Ludlow Street
Jacob August Riis
1888-1895
Shoemaker, Broome Street
Jacob August Riis
1888-1895
Talmud School in a Hester Street Tenement
Jacob August Riis
1888-95
The Bend
Jacob August Riis
1889
The Man Slept in This Cellar for Four Years
Jacob August Riis
1890
The Short Tail Gang. Corlears Hook under the Pier at the ...
Jacob August Riis
1889
The Street, their Playground
Jacob August Riis
1888-1895
Women in Elizabeth Police Street Station
Jacob August Riis
1890
Exhibitions
11 exhibitionsFeb 08, 1949 – May 01, 1949
The Exact Instant
200 artists · 2 curators
Aug 05, 1952 – Aug 18, 1952
Then and Now
54 artists · 1 curator
Nov 27, 1957 – Apr 15, 1958
70 Photographers Look at New York
74 artists · 2 curators
Nov 26, 1958 – Jan 18, 1959
Photographs from the Museum Collection
273 artists · 1 curator
Nov 18, 1959 – Nov 29, 1959
30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
140 artists
Apr 03, 1962 – May 15, 1962
50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
50 artists · 1 curator
May 27, 1964
Edward Steichen Photography Center
130 artists · 1 curator
May 27, 1964 – Aug 23, 1964
The Photographer's Eye
105 artists · 1 curator
Oct 25, 1967
Steichen Gallery Reinstallation
77 artists
Apr 03, 1968 – Jul 28, 1968
Photographs Before Surrealism
22 artists
Jul 01, 1971 – Sep 27, 1971
The Artist as Adversary
140 artists · 1 curator