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Lewis Hine Directory
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Lewis Hine was one of the first proponents of social documentary photography. Hine documented the development of industrialization in United States of America. Lewis Hine supported the introduction of industrialization as he was a believer in the American Dream - 'work is the path to success'. However his background as a sociology teacher showed him the pitfalls of developing industry, and the problems that surrounded it. As Hine pointed out: "There are two things I want to do. I want to show the things that had to be corrected. I want to show the things that had to be appreciated."
Lewis Hine recognized
one of his problems of industrialization was child labour, and set out
to change this situation. Hine believed in a sociological approach in
dealing with this predicament. When photographing individuals he saw
them as representing a wider social group. He told one meeting that
his photographs would encourage people to "exert the force to right
wrongs". Lewis Hine was employed as a staff photographer for the National Child Labour Committee. Hine's contribution to the N.C.L.C. was vast. As well as his photographs appearing in posters and publications, Hines also designed the committee's exhibitions and brochures. Hine's photographs also illustrated his own reports and were used by newspapers and magazines. Due to the pressures of N.C.L.C., Congress agreed to pass legislation to protect children in 1916. After the success of Lewis Hines work with the N.C.L.C., Hine went to Europe to work for the Red Cross. He documented the living conditions of the French and Belgian civilians during the First World War. After the Armistice Hine went to the Balkans and in 1919 he published The Children's Burden in the Balkans. In 1930-31 Hine recorded the construction of the Empire State Building which was later published as a book, Men at Work (1932). Biographies Spartacus Biogrpahy of Lewis Hine New York Public Library: Lewis Hine The Social Reform Photography of Lewis Hine: Kay Davis
Images National Child Labor Committee Collection Photographs by Lewis Hine Let Children Be Children: Lewis Hine Empire State Building: Lewis Hine Hine Collection: University of Maryland Royalty Free Images: The Multimedia Library
Articles about Lewis Hine Picturing the immigrant: Readings in Identity and Culture By Gabriella Ibieta and Miles Orvell The
'Sky Boys' By Jim Rasenberger Lewis Hine his camera told the truth by James Rumford Frédéric Perrier: Lewis Hine in Hastings-on-Hudson Telling Lewis Hine's Story: Russell Freedman's "Kids at Work."
Student Resoures Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor: The National Archives National Child Labor Committee Lewis Hine Project: Joe Manning Lewis Hine: Immigration and the Progressive Era - Teaching Notes Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor - Lesson Plans
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