Rediscovering Jacob Riis by Bonnie Yochelson

Author:Bonnie Yochelson [Yochelson, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 2.2 Jacob Riis, Richard Hoe Lawrence, and Henry G. Piffard, “Gotham Court,” 1887–88, modern print from vintage negative, Jacob A. Riis Collection, MCNY, 90.13.4.18. This is one of fourteen whole stereographic negatives in the Riis Collection.

Among the works in the Riis Collection at the Museum of the City of New York are thirty-four stereoscopic negatives that correlate closely with images from Riis’s first lecture. A stereoscopic camera has two lenses mounted next to each other, and its negative, which measures 5 × 8 inches, shows two 5 × 4–inch images, side by side, exposed simultaneously. These double-image negatives are usually used to make stereographs—pairs of prints mounted on cardboard that appear three-dimensional when viewed through an optical device called a stereoscope. Produced by the millions in the nineteenth century, stereographs, often of tourist sites, were a popular form of parlor entertainment. Most stereographs were made by commercial photographers, but serious amateurs favored the stereoscopic camera as well.17

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