How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York | 
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
- Jacob Riis
#junebookbugs #Life Jacob Riis was one of the first to use photography to illustrate the plight of the underprivileged in NYC.Even shooting indoors with flash which was experimental at the time.Love the history of New York,every culture that came through added to the vibrant culture of the city.And the city's history is at its most interesting to me as told through the eyes of working people and its immigrants.
