Lewis Hine - Photographs.
Lewis Hine (1874–1940) was an American photographer and sociologist whose work is closely associated with social reform movements in the United States during the early twentieth century. Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, he studied sociology at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and New York University before becoming a teacher at the Ethical Culture School in New York. In 1904 he began using photography as a documentary tool, photographing immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and producing visual records intended to support sociological research and public education.
Between 1908 and 1924, Hine worked extensively for the National Child Labor Committee, travelling throughout the United States to document child labour in factories, textile mills, coal mines, canneries, and agricultural industries. To gain access to industrial sites, he frequently posed as an inspector, salesman, or photographer producing commercial records. His photographs were accompanied by detailed field notes recording names, ages, occupations, working hours, and locations. This combination of image and written data formed a substantial documentary archive used in campaigns advocating labour reform and child labour legislation.
Hine's work was published in books including Men at Work (1932), which examined the construction of the Empire State Building, and Photo Stories (1937), a volume presenting his documentary approach through sequences of photographs and accompanying text. His images also appeared in numerous reports, pamphlets, surveys, and publications produced by reform organisations and government agencies. The archive of his photographs, negatives, and field notes constitutes one of the most significant documentary records of immigration, labour, and industrial development in the United States during the first four decades of the twentieth century.
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