Riis, Jacob (1849-1914). How the Other Half Lives. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.

8vo. 43 plates after halftone photographs. Original blue-grey cloth stamped in blue and gilt (spine lightly toned, some spotting to covers); morocco-backed folding box.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS LANDMARK WORK, in a rare variant binding and printed on thicker paper. "One of the most important photobooks ever published, 'How the Other Half Lives' represents the first extensive use of halftone photographic reproductions in a book. It is the beginning, not of a photographic genre, but a photographic attitude, an ethos - humanist documentary photography - in which the photographic social document is employed to bear critical witness to what is going on in the world" (Parr & Badger, The Photobook p.53).

[With:] YOCHELSON, Bonnie and Daniel CZITROM. Rediscovering Jacob Riis. Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York. New York: The New Press, 2007.

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Riis, Jacob (1849-1914). How the Other Half Lives. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.

The Library of Stephen J. Farber

Riis, Jacob (1849-1914). How the Other Half Lives. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.

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