| Europe • Great Britain | Peter Henry Emerson publishes his bitter The death of Naturalistic Photography that argues that photography is a "very limited art" and repudiates his earlier work. [Read about] |
North America • USA
| Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives on the New York slums one of the first books of social commentary backed with photographic evidence. It includes seventeen halftone photographs and a further nineteen hand drawings based upon photographs. [Read about]
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (Penguin Classics)
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| North America • USA | Illustrated American, the first picture magazine planned to use photographs, goes to press made possible by perfection of the halftone printing process. |
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