All while writing this book and compiling the first catalog of riiss photograph. In the years it has taken to get these exhibitions mounted and this book published kb eed bonn worn ever single type of hat in the business and none of this could have been possible without her talent, energy and passion for her subject. With that, i will let bonnie take the stage. [ applause ] jacob rhys. Amy, thank you so much, im moved. Thank you very much. Welcome, everyone. Okay so im going to read pretty much lets see what we have to say here. The jacob im going repeat what amy did to just make sure that we understand how these different parts of this project fit together. The jacob riis exhibition now on view in the Jefferson Building at the library of congress is the result of a collaboration of the past several years between the library and the museum and the city of new york. The museums owns riiss photograph of new york city slums in the late 19th century. These photographs are the earliest evid
Monday, Oct. 11, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured," renegade LGBTQ+ activists fought a powerful psychiatry establishment that had things dangerously backwards.