answer prompt by providing text evidence: How was the social documentary photography of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine similar and different?
In this section of Chapter 4, (attached) Orvell examines the emergence of modern documentary photography. While documentary photography of the late 19th and into the early 20th century was informed by the work of mid- to late-19th century photographers who documeted social realities (i.e., the Civil War), the documentary focus shifted to the social realities of a rapidly changing economic and work environment, one that was dominated by industrialization, urbanization, and the experience of wage laborers. Moreover, technological innovations provided photographers with the means to capture new types of subject matter. In this section, you will read about the photogrpahic work of both Jacob Riis (1849-1914) and Lewis Hine (1874-1940). Both looked at their subject matter in a distinct manner as they deployed photography for socio-political purposes and goals.
Complete this response drawing upon evidence and information in Chapter 4 of Miles Orvell’s Photography in America
