Look at the social reformer and photographer and this program is just under an hour. I am cheryl regan, im an exhibitor at the library of congress. On the curator of this exhibit, and im a historian at the library of congress. This exhibition jacob wreaths it is the first time that the collection jacob riis and the jacob jacob riis papers is a stellar collection at the city of new york. We pick the word go presentation very good now and very carefully because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum in the city of new york and really that exhibit had revealed new yorks other half, and its slightly different it looks in a slightly different way and concentrating more on his biography more on his photography and here we are looking at jacob riis as a journalist because that is the strength of our collection the papers here which number 3000, and the Manuscript Division features well and come to the forefront. We also really wanted to emphasize the combinatio
In 1940s, a photographer named alexander land noticed in riis book how the other half lives, that on the title page it says, with illustrations after photographs by the author. So he said to himself, well, where are these photographs . And after several years of searching, he tracked down riis son and with much coercing got riis son to try to find the pictures which turned out to be in the attic of the familys home in queens, new york, that was about to be torn down. So his son discovered a box filled with 400 negatives, 300 odd lantern slides and almost 200 paper prints. And delivered them to alexander hollande, the photographer, who again, taking a couple of years, created an exhibition of from the negatives making beautiful prints, modern prints from the negatives and working with the curator at the museum of the city of new york to put on an exhibition called battle with the slum named for one of riis books in which these beautiful, enlarged pictures along with excerpts of riis wri
Now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Youre looking at a timelapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives. Next on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danishborn journalist, social reformer, and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director in the Interpretive Programs Office at the library of congress. Im barbara baier, curator, of this exhibit and im the historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition, jacob riis revealing how the other half lives, is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that th
Issue with the spectrum and make it more usable in that kind of environment. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Youre looking at a time lapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis, revealing how the other half lives. Next, on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danish born journalist and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director and office of the library of congress. Im barbara bair, the curator of this exhibit and im a historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives is a copresentation with a museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the jacob riis papers have been married with the photographs that are stellar collection
Scholar and museum professor. She manage her own time, and find money to get big projects done. I was spending much of my time on this one project, she was simultaneously conducting original research, writing unique exhibition lists for different venues. Teaching and coordinating the senior thesis show at the school of visual arts. All well writing the book and compiling the first ever catalog of riiss photographs. In the years it has taken to get inexhibitions mounted and this book published she has worn any sev single different hat in the business. None of this could have been done without her passion for her subject. I will let bonny take the stage. [ applause ] 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 im going to repeat a little bit of what amy did, to just make sure that we understand how these different parts of the project fit together. The jacob riis exhibition on view in