How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images

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How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies. This book takes an unprecedented look at the practices of observati

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"Honorable Mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association"
"Shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize, Modern Studies Association"
"A fascinating visual history."---Bryan Cheyette, Times Literary Supplement
"How the Other Half Looks presents a remarkably broad, yet also detailed, look at the iconic works that have shaped how scholars and city dwellers alike understand and encounter urban spaces in the Lower East Side and beyond."---Aaron Shkuda, Gotham Center for New York City History blog
"It is an excellent choice for academic libraries supporting programs in the humanities and social sciences."---Barbara M. Bibel, Association of Jewish Library Reviews
"[An] excellent, highly original study[How the Other Half Looks] also may be appreciated for its potential to stimulate scholars to probe how the immigrant and 'Jewish' quarters of cities may be approached as extraordinarily fertile sites for cultural history."---Michael Berkowitz, American Literary History

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Sara Blair is the Patricia S. Yaeger Collegiate Professor of English and a faculty associate in the Department of American Culture and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Her books include Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century (Princeton) and Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA.