bandits roost campground, 59½ Mulberry Street

The end of the 19th century in the city of New York was a magnet for the immigrants of the world, and most of them found roads not bordered by gold but of almost inhuman poverty. While educated people turn a blind eye, brave reporters like Jacob Riis, born in Denmark, document the shame of the Golden Age. Riis does this by venturing into the city's most unpleasant environment with dazzling lights of magnesium dust, capturing common crimes, destroying the terrible poverty and density.

The most famous is the image of Riis on the gang of Lower East Side Street, which conveys the danger that lurks at each step. Such work forms the basis of the book for the disclosure of How Half Other Lives, forcing Americans to confront what they have long ignored and galvanizing reformers like the young New York politician Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote to photographers: "I read your book, and I come to help." Riis' work was instrumental in the realization of the House Act of 1901, which was a landmark in New York, which improved conditions for the poor, and its focus Enthusiastic and confrontational style that led directly to the era of documentary and scandal. journalism