Jacob Riis’s Camera

Jacob Riis’s Camera

by Alexis O'Neil

This revealing biography of a pioneering photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis shows how he brought to light one of the worst social justice issues plaguing New York City in the late 1800s–the tenement housing crisis–using newly invented flash photography.


Ages: 7-up
Illustrated by: Gary Kelley
ISBN:  9781629798660
Price: $18.99
Published by: Calkins Creek

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