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.
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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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.jpg "Bootblack in the Bowery, New York 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 "Top of the Mooring Mast, Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Construction workers empire state building, c.1930 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 "New York City from the Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Sewing Machine Girls, c.1917 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1615001).jpg "Untitled (Coal cars in mine) 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 "Building the Empire State Building 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 "Young Russian Jewess, Ellis Island 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 "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 "Worker Giving High-Signal to the Derrick Crew by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Bootblack at 3rd Avenue and 9th Street, New York City by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Untitled by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait with Newsboy by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Portrait of a powerhouse mechanic by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_of_the_shucking_shed_a_-_(MeisterDrucke-131363).jpg "Johnnie, Oyster Shucker Aged 9 Watched by Boss of the Shucking Shed at Dunbar, Louisiana by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Newsboys, Brooklyn Bridge by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "A Little Shaver, Indianapolis 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 "The Empire State Building: Skyscraper Workers by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Five Pupils Present at School No. 6, District 3, Fort Michigan, Colorado by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "8 Year Old Newsboy Michael McNelis, Who")
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.jpg "Empire State Building, New York, 1931 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 "Raising the Mast, The Empire State Building, 1939 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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.jpg "Breaker Boys Are No Longer Needed, This Is A Modern Breaker by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Construction worker empire state building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Welsh Coal Miner, West Virginia Mine by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Drilling For A Shot: Old-Fashioned Way Of Mining Coal by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Immigrant Mother And Child by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Powerhouse Mechanic by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-16913).jpg "Messenger Boy for Mackay Telegraph Company, Waco, Texas by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Mechanic and Steam Pump by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Old Time Garment Shop, New York City by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "A Miner")
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.jpg "Empire State Building, New York City, c.1930 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 "Lilie Stainers, 7 years old. Atlanta, Georgia 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 "Young Women Working at a Spinning Machine in a Cotton Mill, South Carolina, 1908 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Girls Making Stockings in Ipswich Mills, Boston, Massachusetts by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Charlie McBride aged 12 takes wood from a chute for 10 hours at Miller and Vidor Lumber Company, Beaumont, Texas for which he earns 50 cents while the other boy saws it on an unguarded circular saw, 191 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Children Carrying Their Pecks of Cranberries to the Bushel Man at Theodore Budd")
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.jpg "The Ball Team Composed Mostly of Glassworkers, Indiana 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 "Young Teen Girl Working as Spinner at Cotton Mill, West, Texas, USA by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Untitled by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Mery Horn, a hunchback condition aggravated by the heavy load of papers she carried, Mar 1909 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Horse-Drawn Carriages in Fell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-930324).jpg "Young Girl Working in a Mill, Lincolnton, North Carolina, USA, c.1908 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Hosiery Worker 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 "A Little Shaver, Indianapolis 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 "A View Of Workers In Ewen Breaker Of Pennsylvania Coal Company by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Powerhouse Mechanic, c.1924 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "De Marco Family Shack for Cranberry Pickers at Forsythe")
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.jpg "Coal Miner 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 "Spinner by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Riveters on the Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Newspaper seller by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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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 "Untitled 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 "Breaker Boy in Pennsylvania Coal Mine by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Untitled 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 "Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, Fayetteville, Tennessee 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 "Empire State Building Under Construction 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 "Goodrich Tobacco Farm, near Gildersleeve, Connecticut, 1917 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Montgomery, Alabama 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 "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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.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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_with_an_11_year_-_(MeisterDrucke-128746).jpg "10 Year Old Jimmie Who Has Been Shucking 3 Years with an 11 Year Old Boy Who Shucks 7 Pots at Varn und Platt Canning Co., Bluffton, South Carolina, 1913 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "12 Year Old Doffer Ronald Webb and 7 Year Old Frank Robinson, Son of Cardroom Boss, Who Sweeps and Doffs at Roanoke Cotton Mills, Virginia, 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Housing for Workers at the Rome Hosiery Mill, Georgia, 1913 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Down On The Wharf, New York by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Loom from the Front by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Patient Having Dental Work by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Newsboy Asleep with His Papers in Jersey City, New Jersey, 1912 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Untitled, from the series \"Southern Negroes\" 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 "Derrick-Man by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "8 Year Old Leo, Only 4 Feet Tall, Picks Up Bobbins for 15 Cents a Day at Elk Cotton Mills, Fayetteville, Tennessee, 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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