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Hine, widely known for his photographs of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and his studies of child labor, brings enormous technical ability and sensitivity to these images of construction workers, railroad and factory workers, miners, foundation men, welders, and the builders of the Empire State Building.
Lewis Hine's famous images of child laborers in America.
A documentary account of child labor in America during the early 1900s and the role Lewis Hine played in the crusade against it.
Gathers Hine's photographs showing the devastation of World War I in France, Italy, Greece, and Serbia, and explains how he developed the photo essay.
Lewis Wickes Hines documentary photography helped promote the cause of the National Child Labor Committee, which published there declaration in 1913. This text is a collection of photographs showing children at work from 1910 to 1935 as Hines travelled across America.
A collection of black-and-white photographs that document the construction of the Empire State Building, completed in 1931, with information about photographer Lewis W. Hine.
Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874–1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont and Massachusetts to Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri. Using his camera as a tool of social activism, Hine had a major influence on the development of documentary photography. But many of his pictures transcend their original purpose. Concentrating on these photographs, Alexander Nemerov reveals the special eeriness of Hine's beautiful and disturbing work as never bef...
A compassionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcend the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality. Seventy years after they were made, his Ellis Island pictures are still intensely moving: the newly arrived immigrants caught in all their bewilderment-- uncertain as to whether they will even be admitted to the promised land. Hine's dynamic images changed the way Americans looked at social conditions. Hine put his life on the line to capture a truthful picture of people at work. He risked physical attack in order to expose the brutal e...
A collection of black-and-white photographs that document the construction of the Empire State Building, completed in 1931, with information about photographer Lewis W. Hine.
Presents pictures of the major events of the twentieth century involving business, disasters, society, sports, the arts and more.