Lewis Hine was an American photographer, best known for his portraits of simple workers and emigrants. As a social documentarist, he wanted to show social ills in the United States, which was shaken by years of depression and fierce labor disputes. As a trained sociologist, he had a heartfelt concern to achieve changes with his relentless photographs of child labor. "A good photo is not just the reproduction of an object or group of objects - it's an interpretation of nature, a reflection of the impressions that the photographer receives and wants to convey to others." With this motto in mind, he talked about construction of the Empire State Building, of child labor and the poor emigrants from Europe who arrived by the thousands on Ellis Island. Particularly impressive is his portrait of a mourning migrant worker with her children. The desperation and exhaustion in the face of the young woman is almost palpable. He himself came from relatively simple circumstances. After the early death of his father, he worked his way through occasional work until he managed to study pedagogy 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 learn the basics of photography autodidactically. A few years later, he worked as a full-time photographer in Europe and the USA.
.jpg "Railroad Worker - Tightening Wheel, 1925, printed 1931")
.jpg "View of Lower Manhattan from the Empire State Building, 1931")
.jpg "Derrick man, Empire State Building, 1930-31")
.jpg "Raising the Mast, The Empire State Building, 1939")
.jpg "On the Hoist, The Empire State Building, 1931")
.jpg "Sitting on Beam, The Empire State Building, 1930s")
.jpg "Unknown picture")
.jpg "New York City from the Empire State Building, 1931")
.jpg "The Childrens Chorus")
.jpg "Climbing into the Promised Land, Ellis Island, 1908 (gelatin silver photo)")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-655356).jpg "Newsies, Newark, New Jersey, December 1909 (gelatin silver print)")
.jpg "Young Russian Jewess, Ellis Island, 1905")
.jpg "Top of the Mooring Mast, Empire State Building")
.jpg "Workers on the Empire State Building, c.1930")
.jpg "Powerhouse Mechanic, c.1924;")
.jpg "An Industrial Design: Pennsylvania Rubber Co. at the Control Wheel of a Great Calendar - Making Auto Tires, 1920s, printed 1930s")
.jpg "Building the Empire State Building, c.1931")
.jpg "Empire State Building, New York City, c.1930")
.jpg "Rosie, aged 7, illiterate, working for a second year as an oyster shucker at Varn and Platt Canning Company, Bluffton, South Carolina, 1913")
.jpg "Steelworkers at Russian Boarding House, Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1907-8 (gelatin silver print)")
.jpg "Unknown picture")
.jpg "Itinerant cotton pickers leaving a farm near McKinney, Texas after picking a bale and a half of cotton a day, 1913")
.jpg "Geography of Plants in Tropical Countries, A Study of the Andes, drawn by Schoenberger and Turpin, printed by Langlois, Paris")
.jpg "The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog")
.jpg "Starry Night")
.jpg "Young Hare")
.jpg "Sitting woman with raised knee")
.jpg "The Garden of Earthly Delights")
.jpg "Almond Blossom")
.jpg "The Kiss")
.jpg "The Magpie")
.jpg "empty frame")
.jpg "The Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne - Sunrise, 1842")
.jpg "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose")
.jpg "The Dream of the Fishermans Wife")
 - (MeisterDrucke-166864).jpg "Cleopatra VII, reconstruction of a relief from the temple of Kom Ombo (papyrus)")
.jpg "Lolotte")
.jpg "The Sun")
.jpg "Tondals Vision")
.jpg "Chair by the window")
.jpg "The death")
.jpg "Saint Rosalia")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-81279).jpg "Birds Eye View of Venice (detail of 170292 and 61004)")
.jpg "Paradise Lost: Satan in Council, engraving by Gustave Doré")
.jpg "Constance")
.jpg "Elena Povolozky")
.jpg "Harebells")
.jpg "Two Men Contemplating the Moon")
.jpg "Portrait presumed to be Andrea del Verrocchio")
.jpg "Young Girl in a Beret, 1918")
 - (MeisterDrucke-681737).jpg "Head of a girl (Louise)")
.jpg "Forward flexed female nude")
.jpg "Clog maker")
.jpg "Birds Eye View of Venice")
.jpg "Signature of Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison")
 - (MeisterDrucke-200559).jpg "Paeonia from Johann Wilhelm Weinmanns Phytanthoza Iconographia, 1737 (hand-coloured engraving)")
.jpg "Portrait of Jean Alexandre realized in 1909")
.jpg "Studies of Horses, c1490 1954")
_in_his_House_at_Koltushy_near_St_Petersburg_19_-_(MeisterDrucke-198325).jpg "Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) in his House at Koltushy, near St. Petersburg, 1935")
