Directions:
Watch the clip first and browse the photo slideshow on the following link below to answer the questions:
Watch the clip first and browse the photo slideshow on the following link below to answer the questions:
Jacob Riis How the Other Half Live
America, Story of US History Channel
America, Story of US History Channel
New York Times Jacob Riis Slideshow
1. Describe five urban problems that you can observe in the pictures and illustrations. A. B. C. D. E.
2. Why do you think that Jacob Riis (the photographer) chose to inform people about these problems by using pictures instead of just writing an article?
3. Look at the photograph of the “Street Arabs.” These boys, like many of Riis’ subjects, were asked to pose for the camera. Does this make his work more or less accurate as a historical source? Explain.
4. How do captions such as “Slept in the Cellar Four Years” and “The Baby’s Playground” influence the viewer’s understanding of the pictures?
5. Would Riis have been better off it he stuck to more straight-forward descriptions such as “Market Scene,” “Home of the Italian Rag-picker,” or “Bunks in a Seven Cent Lodge?”
1. Describe five urban problems that you can observe in the pictures and illustrations. A. B. C. D. E.
2. Why do you think that Jacob Riis (the photographer) chose to inform people about these problems by using pictures instead of just writing an article?
3. Look at the photograph of the “Street Arabs.” These boys, like many of Riis’ subjects, were asked to pose for the camera. Does this make his work more or less accurate as a historical source? Explain.
4. How do captions such as “Slept in the Cellar Four Years” and “The Baby’s Playground” influence the viewer’s understanding of the pictures?
5. Would Riis have been better off it he stuck to more straight-forward descriptions such as “Market Scene,” “Home of the Italian Rag-picker,” or “Bunks in a Seven Cent Lodge?”
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