Communist in the soviet union and china. Cspan recorded this event in 2013. In ber rumia, the professional at bard college was educated in holland and japan. Hes won selfawards for his work, among them the International Prize and assurances dean journalism award. The publications he writes for include the new york review of books, new yorker, the new york times, and roothe guardian, wh the guardian recently published his highly learned and highly entertaining review of the exhibitions current exhibition shungia sex and pleasure in japanese art. Among his books are entertaining the gods, religionen and democracy on three continents, murder in amstra dad and islamabad and limits of toll trance and invading japan, 1963 to 1964. In the zero, most of which he wrote while he was a fellow at the komen center in 201112 to the serious envy of his fellows he was so productive, he produced a brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii in
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
December i went to a prom i was the equivalent of a freshman oft the university and i came home at 2 00 oclock at night and the light was on interested americas and the war. And why did i get you so much. Because i knew we were going to lose it. What did that mean for you. I did not cry them. How old were you, i was 17,. With the late author john lucas indepth was born 20 years ago since 2000 over 200 of the nonfiction and fiction authors of our time have appeared on indepth alice, bob woodward, tyson, george will, just to name a few over the next three hours our goal is to review the last years of indepth and ask a couple of questions, here they are, who is your favorite indepth guest, what book are you reading now and he was your favorite Nonfiction Author, thats what will be talking about and showing a video from the past 20 years as well and heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth to 027488200 and for those of you in the mountain in Eastern Central time zone 20
Bridge toll plaza. It is. Metering lights are on and we are starting to see a back up. You see traffic stacking up a bit as you work out of the east bay into the city via bay bridge. Once you pass this, it looks better across upper deck into San Francisco. A couple hot spots to look for, if you are taking bart, we are dealing with bart delays on the richmond lines. This is due to an equipment problem on the tracks. Do plan ahead if you are taking bart. South 880 is pretty busy. We are seeing brake lights away from 92. There is a crash not far from the connector and theyre just clearing it out of lanes. Reporter we are getting new information in now on this Apartment Fire in San Francisco. This is video from the citizen app from earlier this morning. You see the flames shooting out of the window. Thats on the 11th floor of this high rise on davis court. A total of 22 apartments were significantly damaged by this fire and five people were injured, escaping the building. When firefighters