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Lewis Hine was an American photographer known primarily for his portraits of ordinary workers and emigrants. As a social documentarist, he wanted to show social grievances in the USA, shaken by years of depression and fierce labor struggles. As a trained sociologist, it was a matter close to his heart to achieve change with his relentless photographs of child labor.
"A good photograph is not simply the reproduction of an object or group of objects - it is an interpretation of nature, a rendering of the impressions the photographer receives and wants to convey to others." With this motto in mind, he talked about the construction of the Empire State Building, about child labour and the poor emigrants from Europe who arrived in their thousands at Ellis Island. His portrait of a migrant worker staring into space with her children is particularly impressive. The desperation and exhaustion on the young woman's face is almost tangible.
He himself came from a relatively humble background. After the early death of his father, he struggled with casual jobs until he managed to study education and sociology. At the same time he taught at the Ethical Culture School in New York. Under the influence of his colleagues he began to acquire the basic knowledge of photography autodidactically. Only a few years later he was able to work as a full-time photographer in Europe and the USA.
Lewis Hine was an American photographer known primarily for his portraits of ordinary workers and emigrants. As a social documentarist, he wanted to show social grievances in the USA, shaken by years of depression and fierce labor struggles. As a trained sociologist, it was a matter close to his heart to achieve change with his relentless photographs of child labor.
"A good photograph is not simply the reproduction of an object or group of objects - it is an interpretation of nature, a rendering of the impressions the photographer receives and wants to convey to others." With this motto in mind, he talked about the construction of the Empire State Building, about child labour and the poor emigrants from Europe who arrived in their thousands at Ellis Island. His portrait of a migrant worker staring into space with her children is particularly impressive. The desperation and exhaustion on the young woman's face is almost tangible.
He himself came from a relatively humble background. After the early death of his father, he struggled with casual jobs until he managed to study education and sociology. At the same time he taught at the Ethical Culture School in New York. Under the influence of his colleagues he began to acquire the basic knowledge of photography autodidactically. Only a few years later he was able to work as a full-time photographer in Europe and the USA.
.jpg "Bootblack in the Bowery, New York by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Construction Worker, Empire State Building, New York City by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Portrait of Young Girl Taking Care of Baby Sister While Rest of Family is Working at Local Cannery, Bayou La Batre, Alabama, USA by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-654670).jpg "Raising the Mast, Empire State Building, 1931 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Sewing Machine Girls, c.1917 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Three Young Newsboys Smoking, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Construction workers empire state building, c.1930 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Young Russian Jewess, Ellis Island by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_at_Hughestown_Borough_Coal_Co_Pittston_Penn_-_(MeisterDrucke-133265).jpg "Breaker boys at Hughestown Borough Coal Co. Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Top of the Mooring Mast, Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "6 year old newsboy, known as Little Fattie and only 3 ft 4 ins tall, has been working for a year in St. Louis, Missouri, 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Power House Mechanic, 1925 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "5 Year Old Newsboy Tommy Hawkins Working in St. Louis, Missouri by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Empire State Building under construction, showing workman taking a break by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Lena Lochiavo, 11 years old, basket and pretzel seller, at Sixth Street market in front of saloon entrance, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 1908 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "New York City from the Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Young Women Working at a Spinning Machine in a Cotton Mill, South Carolina, 1908 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_in_the_Unit_-_(MeisterDrucke-930453).jpg "Arrival of a family of Italian immigrants to Ellis Island in 1905 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait with Newsboy by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Breaker boys who sort coal by hand at Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Co, South Pittston, Pennsylvania by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1423279).jpg "Spindle Boys in Georgia Cotton Mill by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Newspaper seller by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Addie Card, 12 years old. Spinner in cotton mill, North Pownal, Vermont, 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Housing for about 50 employees of Maggioni Canning Co., Port Royal, South Carolina, surrounded by marsh and on an old shell pile, 1912 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1004222).jpg "Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in the early 20th century by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1422679).jpg "Close-up of a Power House Mechanic Working on Steam Pump c.1920 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Young Teen Girl Working as Spinner at Cotton Mill, West, Texas, USA by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Empire State Building, New York City, c.1930 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1422678).jpg "Power House Mechanic Working on Steam Pump c.1920 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day at Geronimo, Comanche County Oklahoma, 1916 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Women Working Despite Being Heavily Pregnant, at Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_at_Hughestown_Borough_Coal_Co_Pittston_Penn_-_(MeisterDrucke-125191).jpg "Breaker boys (who sort coal by hand) at Hughestown Borough Coal Co. Pittston, Pennsylvania by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Sitting on Beam, The Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Breaker Boys Pittston PA c.1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Workers on the Empire State Building, c.1930 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Spinner, Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia, 1909 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Italian Family Looking for Lost Baggage, Ellis Island by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Pinboys in a Subway bowling alley, 65 South Street, Brooklyn. New York. 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Powerhouse Mechanic, c.1924 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Empire State Building under construction, showing a lifting gang at work by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Sadie Pfeifer, only 4 feet tall, has worked for 6 months at Lancaster Cotton Mills, South Carolina by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Rosy Aged 8 Works a 14 Hour Day as an Oyster Shucker at Dunbar Cannery, Louisiana, 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Ten Year Old Charlie Foster, Unable to Read, with a Steady Job at Merrimack Mills, Huntsville, Alabama, 1913 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Empire State Building, New York, 1931 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Portrait of a powerhouse mechanic by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "7 year old newsboy Ferris in Mobile, Alabama, 1914 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Cigar-makers, Tampa, Florida, 1909 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Powerhouse Mechanic by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "5 year old Olga Schubert began work about 5:00 A.M. helping her mother in the Biloxi Canning Factory, Mississippi, picking shrimps. She was tired out and refused to be photographed, 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Elsie and Sadie Working at Yazoo City Yarn Mills, Mississippi Said They Were 13 Years Old, 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Itinerant Cotton Pickers Leaving a Farm Near McKinney, Texas After Picking a Bale and a Half of Cotton a Day, 1913 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Mechanic and Steam Pump by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Children working in the spinning room at Cornell Mill, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1912 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Small boys climbing on spinning frame to mend broken threads and replace empty bobbins at Bibb Mill, Macon, Georgia, 1909 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Empire State Building Under Construction by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Young Boys Setting Up Bowling Pins at Arcade Bowling Alley Late at Night, Trenton, New Jersey, USA by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Newsboys having a cigarette break, St. Louis, Missouri. 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Construction worker empire state building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Riveting the last bolts on The Morning Mast of the Empire State building, c1931 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "5 Year Old Migrant Shrimp-Picker Manuel in Front of a Pile of Oyster Shells, Working for a Second Year at Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Millie, aged 4 picks 8 pounds of cotton a day and Nellie 5, picks 30 on a farm near Houston, Texas, 1913 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Maud and Grade Daly, 5 and 3 years old pick about a pot of shrimp each day for the Peerless Oyster Company, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Derrick Man, Empire State Building, 1930-31 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Shuckers Opening Oysters, 1913 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "An Italian home near Hull House, Chicago, 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Newsboys having a cigarette break, St. Louis, Missouri. 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Eight Year Old Jennie Camillo from Philadelphia Picking Cranberries at Theodore Budd")
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.jpg "8 Year Old Newsboy Michael McNelis, Who")
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.jpg "Immigrants in Ellis Island by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Factory Worker at the Paragon Rubber Company, Massachusetts by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "One of the young oyster shuckers, Pass Christian, Mississippi, February 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Riveting the last bolts on The Morning Mast of the Empire State building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_at_Hughestown_Borough_Coal_Co_Pittston_Penn_-_(MeisterDrucke-124800).jpg "Breaker Boys (Who Sort Coal by Hand) at Hughestown Borough Coal Co. Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "On the Hoist, The Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Western Union messenger boys, Houston, Texas by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Building the Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Curtin Hines aged 14, Western Union messenger for 6 months, Houston, Texas, 1913 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Rosie, Aged 7, Illiterate, Working for a Second Year as an Oyster Shucker at Varn und Platt Canning Company, Bluffton, South Carolina by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Corner of a Shack Used by Pickers on Theodore Budd")
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.jpg "Hattie Hunter, a Spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, South Carolina Where She")
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.jpg "A Doffer Replaces Full Bobbins at Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "The Empire State Building: Skyscraper Workers by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Boys making cigars at Englehardt und Co, Tampa, Florida, 1909 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Two Young Spinners in Catawba Cotton Mills, Newton, North Carolina by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "De Marco Shack for Cranberry Pickers at Forsythe")
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.jpg "Young Boy Working as Doffer in Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia, USA by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Child Spinner in Mollahan Cotton Mills, Newberry, South Carolina, 1908 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Empire State Building under construction, showing placing of steel girder by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Blower and Mould Boy at Seneca Glass Works, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1908 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Factory Worker at the Paragon Rubber Company, Massachusetts, 1936 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Alex Reiber aged 7 carries on topping sugar beets after")
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.jpg "Climbing into the Promised Land, Ellis Island, 1908 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, South Carolina, 1908 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Baltimore, Maryland, July 1909 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "12 year old Eddie Norton, makes about 40 cents a day as a sweeper at Saxon Mill, Spartanburg, North Carolina by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Jo Arnao, picking cranberries with his brother and sister, 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Factory Worker at the Paragon Rubber Company, Massachusetts, 1936 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Empire State Building under construction, showing an inspector checking work by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Cotton Picker Aged 4 Who Picks 15 Pounds a Day Regularly and 7 Year Old Who Picks 50. They Move from Farm to Farm and Live in Emigrant Wagons, McKinney, Texas by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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