Which statement accurately describes Jacob Riis?

A.
He developed a system of generators to transmit alternating current over wires for hundreds of miles.

B.
He exposed the truth about child labor in the factories, mills, and mines of turn-of-the-century America.

C.
He took heart-wrenching photos of the hardships that immigrants to America faced.

D.
He designed several of America's most beautiful green spaces, including New York's Central Park.

Question

Which statement accurately describes Jacob Riis?	
 
 A.
He developed a system of generators to transmit alternating current over wires for hundreds of miles.
 
 B.
He exposed the truth about child labor in the factories, mills, and mines of turn-of-the-century America.
 
 C.
He took heart-wrenching photos of the hardships that immigrants to America faced.
 
 D.
He designed several of America's most beautiful green spaces, including New York's Central Park.

darrenmadx · Answer

He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. Additionally, as one of the most famous proponents of the newly practicable casual photography, he is considered one of the fathers of photography due to his very early adoption of flash in photography. While living in New York, Riis experienced poverty and became a police reporter writing about the quality of life in the slums. He attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes.