Talk:How the Other Half Lives

message: Hello, these three pictures have noteworthy differences. Is the third a retouched version i.e. could the woman be inserted? I don't think so. But why the heck I cannot find this photograph? Thanks for sharing your opinions. --Catfisheye (talk) 22:28, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it is a half-tone print. --Catfisheye (talk) 23:35, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bandits' Roost 

message: "The harsh white light from magnesium flash powder often caused a look of shock on the faces of those photographed and was accepted as an indication of candid and objective photography."
This sentence troubles me on several grounds.  First, who says the facial expressions in the photographs are an artifact of flash photography?  Who accepted their expressions as (presumably) objective evidence of the subjects' misery?  There are no sources for these assertions.  If you look at the people in the photographs, most in fact have neither "a look of shock" nor a look of misery.  They just look like people:  many aren't looking at the camera; some are smiling. Winter Maiden (talk) 16:55, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flash photography 

message: "In the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East Side of Manhattan."
As (properly) noted in
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class
"The modern usage of the term "middle class", however, dates to the 1913 UK Registrar-General's report, in which the statistician T.H.C. Stevenson identified the middle class as that falling between the upper class and the working class."
In terms of historical accuracy there was no "middle class" in the 1890's as correct definition was merchant class, or conversely simply "capitalist" or "mercantile-class", and the opening text should reflect as such.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dinosnake (talk • contribs) 22:28, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Middle class" 

message: The article says Jacob Riis proposed a solution to the problems he wrote about, but never actually says what he proposed. It does say what happened as a result of the book, but did the people that improved tenement housing as a result of the book actually follow Riis's proposal or were they doing their own improvements? Merkava120 (talk) 23:12, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the solution proposed in the book? 

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message: Laws were passed to improve the conditions of tenements based on the images and reporting in this book.  But nothing is said about what happened to those he photographed.  Were they just thrown out on the street?  Is that better than what they had?Jensleydale (talk) 02:53, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Happened to the Tenants Who Lived in the Condemned Buildings?