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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-654670).jpg "Raising the Mast, Empire State Building, 1931 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Bootblack in the Bowery, New York 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 "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 "Construction workers empire state building, c.1930 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Sewing Machine Girls, c.1917 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 "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 "5 Year Old Newsboy Tommy Hawkins Working in St. Louis, Missouri 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1615001).jpg "Untitled (Coal cars in mine) by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Power House Mechanic, 1925 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 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 "Building the Empire State Building 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 "Empire State Building under construction, showing workman taking a break by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Unknown Image 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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_-_(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 "Malvina Amundsen, 15-Year-Old Office Girl at Eastern Talking Machine Co., Boston, Massachusetts by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "15-Year-Old Office Boy Working in New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Office, Boston, Massachusetts by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Pete Trombetta, aged 10, picking berries for a 6th season with his sister Mary, 11, who picks 100 quarts a day, and brother Salvatore Trombetta, aged 14, who picks 200 quarts at Johnson")
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.jpg "Five-Year-Old Helen and Her Stepsisters Hulling Strawberries for Two Cents a Quart at Johnson")
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.jpg "Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Untitled 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 "Empire State Building, New York City, c.1930 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "6 year old newsboy Hyman selling papers until 6 p.m. in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1911 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Empire State Building Under Construction, Showing Bolter with Spanner 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 "Self-Portrait with Newsboy by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Alex Reiber aged 7 carries on topping sugar beets after")
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.jpg "A Girl Folding Filing-Folders at the Boston Index Card Co. at 113 Purchase Street in Boston, Massachusetts by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Newspaper seller by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Young women sorting papers in a storeroom, c.1905 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Quilling - A Close Up of the \"Quills\" 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 "6 Year Old Jo Pulling Sugar Beets on a Farm Near Sterling, Colorado, 1915 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Untitled, ca. 1935 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "8 Year Old Newsboy Michael McNelis, Who")
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.jpg "Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St. Bootblack, 12 Years of Age, Working One Year of Own Volition. Don")
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.jpg "Jacob Futterman, 16-Year-Old Coconut Shaver at Kibbe")
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.jpg "John Pento, 14 years old, Daniel and Angelo Pento, 7 years old, selling newspapers 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 "Spinner, Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia, 1909 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 "Messenger Boys in Conversation at Union Square, New York by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Young Boy in a Workshop by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Warping 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 "Motor for Coal Train, West Virginia 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 "A Little Shaver, Indianapolis by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-655356).jpg "Newsies, Newark, New Jersey, December 1909 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Mary Christmas, Only 3, Made to Pick Cranberries Spilt at the Barrels by Her Grandfather, Week")
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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-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 "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 "Untitled, from the series \"Southern Negroes\" 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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.jpg "Wagon Boy or Tail Boy Helping to Load the Wagon by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Untitled by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "A 15-Year-Old Girl Cutting Dies in Harry C. Taylor")
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.jpg "Bill May, Aged 5 who Makes 15 Cents a Day, in the Shucking Shed at Barataria Canning Company, Biloxi, Mississippi by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Young Doffers Replacing Full Bobbins at North Pownal, Vermont by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Child Labor on the Farm by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Leslie Cooper 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 "15-Year-Old Marie Vancanvenberg Working on Corsets for Madam Claff, Boston, Massachusetts by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1618128).jpg "Oklahoma Madonna by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Noon Hour, King Manufacturing Co., Augusta, Georgia by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Empire State Building, New York, 1931 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Young Worker in Paper Box Factory by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Shuckers Opening Oysters, 1913 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 "John Dempsey, 11 or 12 years old, Saturday worker in the mule-spinning room at Jackson Mill, Fiskeville, Rhode Island, 1909 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 "Portrait of a powerhouse mechanic by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_Mello_aged_8_or_9_works_as_a_mill_sweeper_in_New_Bedford_Massachusett_-_(MeisterDrucke-122282).jpg "Joe (Jose) Mello, Aged 8 or 9 Works as a Mill Sweeper in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1911 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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 - (MeisterDrucke-16913).jpg "Messenger Boy for Mackay Telegraph Company, Waco, Texas by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Three Young Girls Working at a Newspaper Stand on Canal Street in New York City by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Boys Peddling Notions on Street, Boston, Massachusetts 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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_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 "An Industrial Design: Pennsylvania Rubber Co. at the Control Wheel of a Great Calendar - Making Auto Tires 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 "Newsboy 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 "All are Workers in Walker County Hosiery Mills, Lafayette, Georgia by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Carding by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Construction workers empire state building, c.1930 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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