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Riis was born in Denmark in 1849, a carpenter by trade, he emigrated to America in 1870. After a period of unemployment and poverty he became crime reporter for the New York Tribune conssistently presenting the poor as victims of rather than the makers of their fate. A pioneer of flash photography, he later became associated with "muck raking" journalism. He wrote and lectured on the poor and published over a dozen books.
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