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Jacob Riis: Bandit’s Roost

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a photojournalistic study of New York City slums in the 1880s. I find this photograph (“Bandit’s Roost”) from the book utterly mesmerizing.

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