Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad. — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image