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May 26, 1914 (65 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
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Celebrities born on May 3
Born in 1849
Born in Ribe, Denmark
Taurus named Jacob
Photographers from Denmark
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First name Jacob
Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. Additionally, as one of the most famous proponents of the newly practicable casual photography, he is considered one of the fathers of photography due to his very early adoption of flash in photography. While living in New York, Riis experienced poverty and became a police reporter writing about the quality of life in the slums.
BornMay 3, 1849, Ribe, Denmark
DiedMay 26, 1914, Barre, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forSocial reform, journalism, photography

About Jacob Riis

Photographer Jacob Riis was born in Ribe, Denmark on May 3, 1849. He dies at the age of 65, on May 26, 1914.

Danish American writer and photographer who used his writing and photos to try to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged New Yorkers. There are various parks and buildings named after him in New York.

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Jacob Riis before becoming famous

Jacob Riis was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1849 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rooster (雞).

He came to America when he was 21 years old, in 1870.

Achievement of Jacob Riis

He is regarded as one of the fathers of photography due to his early use of flash in photography and his 1890 photojournalism work How the Other Half Lives: Studies amid the Tenements of New York, which is regarded as the foundation of muckraking journalism.

Jacob Riis's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Mary Phillips, his second wife, outlived him by 53 years.

Jacob Riis Collabed with

President US President Theodore Roosevelt was a lifelong friend of his, and he authored a campaign biography about him.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) (US President)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)

US President

Jacob Riis Income & Net worth

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