Lewis Hine

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Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) was an American Photographer and Sociologist, best known for his photography about child labor in the United States. He studied sociology in Chicago and New York becoming …

Photograph taken by Lewis W. Hines in Pittston, PA www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/ This photograph shows four boys who worked in a coal mine. Coal mining was one of the first fields of child labor investigated by the National Child Labor Committee in their attempts to bring the issue of child labor to the attention of the general American population. They choose the coal mines because there had recently been a very public strike held by the workers that was still on the minds…

Lewis Hine, who was best known for his use of photography as a means to achieve social reform, was first a teacher of botany and nature studies at the Ethical Culture School in New York. It was while he was teaching that he was given a camera by the head of the school. In his hand, the camera became a powerful means of recording social injustice and labor abuses. Hine's interest in social welfare and in reform movements led him in 1905 to begin his first documentary series; immigrants on…

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Lewis W. Hine, Meccanico con pompa a vapore in un impianto energetico, 1920. Transfer from Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee; ex‐collection of Corydon Hine. © George Eastman House Collection.

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Lewis Hine est sans doute le photographe américain le plus important de l’âge industriel. Pionnier dans la photographie « ethnographique » ses clichés des ouvriers sur l’Empire State Building ont notamment fait le tour du monde. Mais Lewis Hine est aussi réputé pour avoir donné un visage à ces milliers d’enfants qui travaillaient dès le plus jeune […]

Lewis Hine est sans doute le photographe américain le plus important de l’âge industriel. Pionnier dans la photographie « ethnographique » ses clichés des ouvriers sur l’Empire State Building ont notamment fait le tour du monde. Mais Lewis Hine est aussi réputé pour avoir donné un visage à ces milliers d’enfants qui travaillaient dès le plus jeune […]

oldnewyorklandia: “Lewis W Hine, Climbing into America, Ellis Island, New York, 1905. ”

kvetchlandia: “Lewis Hine The Johnson Family, Scott’s Run, West Virginia 1937 ”

kvetchlandia: “Lewis Hine The Johnson Family, Scott’s Run, West Virginia 1937 ”

Os Estados Unidos – vá lá, o mundo – vivem dias de economia recessiva. A situação atual, porém, é refresco se comparada com a Grande Depressão que os EUA enfrentaram a partir do final do anos 1920. No começo daquela década, o país vivia momentos de euforia e crescimento acelerado. As ações subiram, todos investiam […]

Lewis Hine est sans doute le photographe américain le plus important de l’âge industriel. Pionnier dans la photographie « ethnographique » ses clichés des ouvriers sur l’Empire State Building ont notamment fait le tour du monde. Mais Lewis Hine est aussi réputé pour avoir donné un visage à ces milliers d’enfants qui travaillaient dès le plus jeune […]