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Too Good to Get MarriedThe Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen
Explore Gilded Age New York through the lens of Alice Austen, who captured the social rituals of New York's leisured class and the bustling streets of the modern city. Celebrated as a queer artist, she was this and much more Alice Austen (1866–1952) lived at Clear Comfort, her grandparent's Victorian cottage on Staten Island, which is now a National Historic Landmark. As a teenager, she devo…
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Rediscovering Jacob RiisExposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Ce…
Before publishing his pioneering book How the Other Half Lives—a photojournalistic investigation into the poverty of New York's tenement houses, home to three quarters of the city's population—Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the United States as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, barely surviving on his carpentry skills until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. These …
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