- Museum of the City of New York, Photograph collections, Poor, Poverty
A photographic collection exposing social conditions and daily life in the slums of late 19th century New York City. The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer and philosopher François Rabelais, who famously wrote in his Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l'autre vit").
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Jacob A. Riis, K. D. Weeks, Isabel Núñez
- First published
- 1890
- Pages
- 251
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble, Incorporated, Lulu Press, Inc., C. Scribner's Sons
- Editions
- 119
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781418171490
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