- Title Pages
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Volume Editor’s Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Selective Chronology 1860–1920
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Changing Face of Publishing
- Chapter 2 Story Papers
- Chapter 3 Dime Novels
- Chapter 4 Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries
- Chapter 5 Newspapers
- Chapter 6 The Magazine Revolution, 1880–1920
- Chapter 7 American Advertising
- Chapter 8 Postcard Culture in America
- Chapter 9 Early Motion Pictures and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 10 Internationalizing the Popular Print Marketplace
- Chapter 11 Labour and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 12 American Woman’s Suffrage Print Culture
- Chapter 13 Religion and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 14 Juvenile Publications
- Chapter 15 Westerns
- Chapter 16 Science Fiction
- Chapter 17 The Humour Industry
- Chapter 18 Sensationalism
- Chapter 19 Popular Poetry in Circulation
- Chapter 20 ‘To make something of the Indian’
- Chapter 21 ‘To have the benefit of some special machinery’
- Chapter 22 Mexican / American
- 23 The Yellow Claw
- Chapter 24 A Transatlantic Sensation
- Chapter 25 Vision of Pacific Destiny
- Chapter 26 The American Civil War
- Chapter 27 Rough Justice
- Chapter 28 Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma
- Chapter 29 Understanding Readers of Fiction in American Periodicals, 1880–1914
- Appendix 1 Additional Topics and Approaches
- Appendix 2 Archival Resources
- Index
Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma
Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma
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- (p.573) Chapter 28 Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma
- Source:
- The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
- Author(s):
Keith Gandal
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines photographs of urban poverty by the social reformer Jacob Riis, with emphasis on what they suggest about the trauma of class subordination, or class trauma. It also considers how Riis uses his photojournalism to portray multiple cross-class encounters and some of the class dynamics of popular representation, yielding results that are indicative of the conflicted collaborations and power relations at the heart of popular print culture and visual media in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The chapter concludes by analysing Riis’s views about criminality and vice, along with his fictional representations of the poor and of life in the slums through the lens of his photography.
Keywords: photographs, urban poverty, Jacob Riis, class trauma, photojournalism, cross-class encounters, popular print culture, poor, slums, photography
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- Title Pages
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Volume Editor’s Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Selective Chronology 1860–1920
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Changing Face of Publishing
- Chapter 2 Story Papers
- Chapter 3 Dime Novels
- Chapter 4 Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries
- Chapter 5 Newspapers
- Chapter 6 The Magazine Revolution, 1880–1920
- Chapter 7 American Advertising
- Chapter 8 Postcard Culture in America
- Chapter 9 Early Motion Pictures and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 10 Internationalizing the Popular Print Marketplace
- Chapter 11 Labour and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 12 American Woman’s Suffrage Print Culture
- Chapter 13 Religion and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 14 Juvenile Publications
- Chapter 15 Westerns
- Chapter 16 Science Fiction
- Chapter 17 The Humour Industry
- Chapter 18 Sensationalism
- Chapter 19 Popular Poetry in Circulation
- Chapter 20 ‘To make something of the Indian’
- Chapter 21 ‘To have the benefit of some special machinery’
- Chapter 22 Mexican / American
- 23 The Yellow Claw
- Chapter 24 A Transatlantic Sensation
- Chapter 25 Vision of Pacific Destiny
- Chapter 26 The American Civil War
- Chapter 27 Rough Justice
- Chapter 28 Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma
- Chapter 29 Understanding Readers of Fiction in American Periodicals, 1880–1914
- Appendix 1 Additional Topics and Approaches
- Appendix 2 Archival Resources
- Index