Name: Harry Manuel Shulman — SLUMS OF NEW YORK
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Harry Manuel Shulman — SLUMS OF NEW YORK

200,00 kr.

Jacob Riis came to America from Denmark in 1870 at age twenty-one. As a police reporter, Riis came to know intimately the Lower East Side slums of New York. He pioneered the use of flash powder, which allowed him to shed light on the dark, squalid tenements and on New York nightlife. The publication of How the Other Half Lives in 1890 shocked the upper and middle classes of New York. The book’s photographs confronted them with irrefutable evidence of the appalling conditions in which many of their fellow citizens lived. The work identified crowded and unsanitary tenements as the root cause of crime and moral decay. Riis’s work led directly to widespread social and housing reform that saved thousands of lives, making it perhaps the most important book in the history of photojournalism and social reform

Description

SLUMS OF NEW YORK – 1st edition. Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1938. 8vo in blue clothed hardcover stamped in gilt with original unclipped but worn (see photos) dustjacket, now protected. 394 pages. Previous owners bookplate to front innercover else clean and overall a very well preserved very good copy

First edition: extensive study of ethnic neighborhoods of Manhattan, focusing on four specific blocks of the lower east side, lower west side, and Harlem in the 1920s and the Depression