Lewis Hine
Lewis Wickes Hine ( born September 26, 1874 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, † November 4, 1940 in Hastings -on-Hudson, New York) was a teacher of drawing and social documentary photographer.
Life and work
Lewis Wickes Hine grew up in a small town in Wisconsin in a simple restaurant operation. He lost in 1890, when he graduated from high school, due to an accident his father.
Hine worked as a laborer in various fields and himself lived through periods of unemployment. During this time, probably sensitized his eye for social issues. From 1900 to 1907, Hine studied sociology in Chicago and New York before he found a job as a teacher at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.
Photo Technically Hine was an autodidact. At 29, the teacher brought the Shooting in themselves. He understood the camera as a weapon to expose abuses and to show. He documented the child labor in the United States in the early 20th century to the public to draw attention to and to move the legislature on laws against child labor. In this sense, he has worked as a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee ( NCLC ). This documentation for the NCLC, Hine managed an early contribution to the genre of social documentary photography.
In 1930 he was commissioned to accompany the construction of the Empire State Building Photographic. Together with his son Croydon he made over 1000 recordings as a 56- year-old. The project lasted half a year. In 1932, Hine himself a coffee table book out with the title Men At Work, in which he gave expression to his photos of his fascination with the art.
1938 Beaumont Newhall acquired Hines works for the Museum of Modern Art in 1939 showed the Riverside Gallery, New York, a retrospective of his work.
Lewis Hine died on 4 November 1940, following an operation; his estate was acquired in 1955 from George Eastman House.
The twelve -year-old mill worker Addie Card, 1910
Age workers in the construction of the Empire State Building, 1930
Child labor in 1910, 10- year old wearing heavy baskets with berries
Child labor in Indiana, 1908