Jacob Riis
Kara O'Neil
Life In Pictures
Jacob Riis was an immigrant from Denmark that moved to the US in search of a new life. When he came to Ellis Island, the culture shock excited Riis. But he will soon find that the living conditions in the ethnic ghetto was not the reason he came to America. The living conditions were horrible. The horrors of waking up everday to filth and sweatshops terrified Riis to the point of this solution, he was going to write a book about the living conditions. Jacob Riis would take his camera and go out to tenements, sweatshops and ethinic ghettos to snap pictures of how 'he other half lived'. He would soon show these pictures to the business owners and rich people to spark a revolution. The revolution of giving immigrants their proper rights.