Two progressive photographers, two revolutionary muckrakers, and two men with cameras and a desire to shine a light on the truth. Jacob Riis and Sebastiao Salgado weren't all that different. They both took pictures of the uglier not-that-fab lives of people who weren't as fortunate as many of us and were forced to make ends meet by doing hard, not well paying work. Though they were about as similar as can be, they were also extremely different. Unlike Riis, Salgado was not limited to just taking pictures of the United States. In fact, the majority of his photos are actually from other, mainly 3rd world, countries, causing us to see how lucky we are in comparison and how fortunate we are to be living in a country that so often takes advantage of all that its given. However, some of Riis's photographs are even more horrific, they showed what was really going on in America in that time period. They exposed how the slums and working class of the U.S. actually were.
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