Bonnie Yochelson

Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives-a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York's tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city's population-Jacob 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...

Collects Alfred Stieglitz's photographs of New York City, which chronicle the transition the city underwent in the first three decades of the twentieth century.