Photos: Lewis Wickes Hine - Part 1 - Bio data - Links

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Lewis Wickes Hine
11 A.M. Monday, May 9th, 1910. 
Newsies at Skeeter’s Branch, Jefferson near Franklin, St. Louis. 




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Adolescents - Adolescentes



 Birmingham









Bowery Mission bread line on a cold winter night
Mision Bowery, cola del pan en una fría noche de invierno




Climbing into the Promised Land, Ellis Island
Escalando en la Tierra Prometida, Ellis Island 
(lugar de recepción de los inmigrantes en USA)




 Coupling boy - Niño acoplador 




Lewis Wickes Hine Child Labour Pictures

American photographer and sociologist Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 -1940) used his camera as a tool for social reform. His child labour pictures educated the public on the use of children as laborers, leading to changes in child labour laws in the United States.

Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. The NCLC child labour pictures are useful for the study of labor, reform movements, child exploitation, working class families, education, public health, urban and rural housing conditions, industrial and agricultural sites, and other aspects of urban and rural life in America in the early twentieth century


Driver - Conductor




Drought victim from Kentucky, in school with bottle of milk he received in a Red Cross lunch program
ca. 1930
Víctima de la sequía de Kentucky, en la escuela con una botella de leche que recibió en un programa de almuerzos de la Cruz Roja, ca. 1930




Dust - Polvo



Eating - Comiendo



 Empire states








 Photos: Lewis Wickes Hine - Part 1 - Bio data - Links



Biografía

Lewis Hine entra en la Universidad de Chicago en 1900, estudiando Sociología, carrera que continuó en las universidades de Columbia y Nueva York. En Nueva York, Hine trabaja de profesor en la Ethical Culture School. Durante estos años, Hine valora la cámara fotográfica como instrumento para la investigación, como instrumento para comunicar sus hallazgos a investigadores lejanos a él y como instrumento para la enseñanza.

En 1908, Hine mantiene sus opiniones sobre la fotografía, pero añade que la principal misión de la fotografía es el arte, los factores estéticos de la fotografía, los demás objetivos eran secundarios. A la hora de realizar fotografías (él las realizaba con fines sociológicos) se veía antes como figura artística que como científico.

Muy preocupado por el bienestar de los menos favorecidos, registró la llegada de los inmigrantes a Ellis Island, sus asentamientos en insalubres viviendas, sus trabajos en fábricas y tiendas y a sus hijos jugando en los cubos de basura. Hine comprendía la subjetividad de sus fotografías pero también creía que tenían un enorme poder de crítica, llegando a describir sus fotografías como "fotointerpretaciones".

También resaltó cualidades positivas como la asistencias de la Cruz Roja en Centroeuropa.

En 1932 publicó su colección Men at Work, documento fotográfico sobre la construcción del Empire State.

Su obra fue donada al Museo Internacional de Fotografía George Eastman House, en Rochester.


http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hine






Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.[1]


Early life

Lewis W. Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1874. After his father died in an accident, he began working and saved his money for a college education. Hine studied sociology at the University of Chicago, Columbia University and New York University. He became a teacher in New York City at the Ethical Culture School, where he encouraged his students to use photography as an educational medium.[2] The classes traveled to Ellis Island in New York Harbor, photographing the thousands of immigrants who arrived each day. Between 1904 and 1909, Hine took over 200 plates (photographs), and eventually came to the realization that his vocation was photojournalism.[3]


Photojournalism

In 1906, Hine became the staff photographer of the Russell Sage Foundation. Here Hine photographed life in the steel-making districts and people of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the influential sociological study called the Pittsburg Survey. In 1908, he became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), leaving his teaching position. Over the next decade, Hine documented child labor in American industry to aid the NCLC's lobbying efforts to end the practice.[4]

During and after World War I, he photographed American Red Cross relief work in Europe. In the 1920s and early 1930s, Hine made a series of "work portraits," which emphasized the human contribution to modern industry. In 1930, Hine was commissioned to document the construction of The Empire State Building. Hine photographed the workers in precarious positions while they secured the iron and steel framework of the structure, taking many of the same risks the workers endured. In order to obtain the best vantage points, Hine was swung out in a specially designed basket 1,000 feet above Fifth Avenue.[5]

During the Great Depression, he again worked for the Red Cross, photographing drought relief in the American South, and for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), documenting life in the mountains of eastern Tennessee. He also served as chief photographer for the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) National Research Project, which studied changes in industry and their effect on employment. Hine was also a member of the faculty of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.

The Library of Congress holds more than five thousand Hine photographs, including examples of his child labor and Red Cross photographs, his work portraits, and his WPA and TVA images. Other large institutional collections include nearly ten thousand of Hine's photographs and negatives held at the George Eastman House and almost five thousand NCLC photographs at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.


Later life of Lewis Hine

In 1936, Hine was selected as the photographer for the National Research Project of the Works Projects Administration, but his work there was never completed.

The last years of his life were filled with professional struggles due to loss of government and corporate patronage. Few people were interested in his work, past or present, and Hine lost his house and applied for welfare. He died at age 66 on November 3, 1940 at Dobbs Ferry Hospital in Dobbs Ferry, New York, after an operation.[7]

After Lewis Hine's death his son Corydon donated his prints and negatives to the Photo League, which was dismantled in 1951. The Museum of Modern Art was offered his pictures but did not accept them; but the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York did. [8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hine


 






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