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Lewis Hine

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lewis Hine 1874-1940, American photographer, b. Oshkosh, Wis. Hine dedicated much of his photographic career, which began shortly after he bought his first camera in 1903, to exposing in sharp, painful images the social evils of the industrial revolution in the United States. He photographed the poverty of newly arrived immigrants and the street and factory life of working children. Many of these were published in such early collections as Charities and the Commons (1908) and Day Laborers before Their Time (1909). Hine's visual emphasis on their plight helped to bring about the passage... Read more
Lewis Wickes Hine
...a photographer with the Red Cross. On returning to New York City, he photographed the construction of the Empire State Building . For the rest of his life he photographed government projects. Lewis Wickes Hine Lewis Wickes Hine Lewis Wickes Hine Read more
Paul Strand
...New York, N.Y., U.S.—died March 31, 1976, Oregeval, France) U.S. photographer. He studied photography with Lewis Hine . At Hine's urging, he frequented Alfred Stieglitz 's '291' gallery; the avant-garde paintings by Pablo Picasso , Paul Cezanne... Read more

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