Lewis hine biography book
Photobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his own work as illustrations.
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Lewis Hine
American sociologist and photographer
Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer.
His photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.[1]
Early life
Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on September 26, 1874.
After his father was killed in an accident, Hine began working and saved his money for a college education.
This poetic and beautiful picture book chronicles the travels of Lewis Hine, who used his camera to document child labor in the early twentieth century.He 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]
Hine led his sociology classes 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 came to the realization that documentary photography could b
