A Brief Biography of Lewis W. Hine

Primary education, Supplemental tutoring, summer camps, secondary education, family activities, higher education, first full-time job, subsequent employment, present employment with the age of the person, present residence, second residences"(pp.336-340). He lets you look into the life of different people, some from upper-class families and some from lower class families. The reader can see for themselves that the way they are brought up, whether it is from and upper-class family or lower-class family, it affects them. It

The pictures showing child labor represents a flaw in the American economy. In the 20th century, child labor seemed to be the main focus. Most of the pictures were pictures of child labor. All three of the pictures from Lewis Hine given were pictures of child labor. The first picture was of a child which looks to be giving out newspapers. The second picture was of two young boys working in a factory,

Originally published in 1975, Nora Ephron’s essay “The Boston Photographs” is both still relevant and controversial almost forty years later. It deals with the series of three photographs that were published in newspapers across the country. The most important one shows a mother and child falling off a collapsed fire escape. Both have their limbs outstretched. If both had survived, maybe the reaction would have been different. The child survived by landing miraculously on the mother, but the mother ended up dying. The question on everyone’s mind was why the photographer, Stanley Forman, decided to take the photographs instead of trying to help the falling

The United States experienced both the Great Depression and harsh weather conditions during the 1930’s causing Americans to suffer through extreme hardship and impoverishment. Many of the migrant farmers were bankrupt, destitute, and struggled to survive. Photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange, captured the dangerous conditions migrant workers and their families endured through her photograph, Migrant Mother. The photograph not only displays a woman and children suffering, but also reveals the determination and willpower the woman had to provide for her family.

In the article, “Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, and the Culture of the Great Depression” by James C. Curtis, we understand what it takes to get the perfect photo to represent a message. Dorothea Lange became very popular during her time and is known especially for her photo, Migrant Mother, which documents life during the Great Depression. James C. Curtis does a good job explaining the artistic decisions to this most famous shot and how many different steps Lange took in order to really create a powerful message depicting life in poverty.

As a result, amidst the poor social class, child labor was not uncommon. Nonetheless, in 1904 the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) took a stand to end child labor with the enactment of federal laws. Their emergence had shocked the country because child labor stimulated the economy, which made it a well-respected institution like slavery in the 1800s. In addition, parents of child laborers had even stood against its abolishment due to each child’s earnings (Springer). However, this opposition motivated the NCLC. To further their unpopular conquest, they hired Lewis Hine, a photographer, to capture the horror of child labor conditions to raise awareness. In addition, they recklessly campaigned by means of protesting, giving speeches, and writing endless letters to the government [National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)]. As a result, America finally recognized the lack of “pursuit of happiness” in child labor. Without the stand Lewis Hine and the NCLC took against child labor, the American workplace of the 1800s would remain the same, the U.S. would fail to rise as a political, global powerhouse, and the ubiquitous “American dream” would cease to

Most jobs were either in unsafe coal mines, or non-ventilated factories. As a result of this, many children were maimed or killed in their places of employment. However, muckraker Lewis Hine decided to call attention to these terrible conditions. He went into factories, photographed the children and used their drama and cruelty to create a more alert, and caring public. Shortly after this, many communities grew together began forming unions and committees to put an end to child labor.

In the movement of changing the child labor laws, they were trying to give children an education instead of death, or loosing fingers. A man by the name of Lewis Hine, studied and photographed children in work places, to try to convince companies and industries that it was not alright for child labor. The biggest safety hazards for

Many children were considered part of their family income. Due to these circumstances many child laborers never got to experience the innocence of childhood. Lewis Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on September 26, 1874 to Douglas Hull Hine, who was a veteran of the Civil War, and Sarah Hayes Hine, a teacher (Boney, 1986, p. 519). Hine had originally planned to follow in his mother’s footsteps as an educator. While working on a project on Ellis Island with students from the Ethical Culture School in NY, Hine began to realize his interest in documentary photography in

He asked them to give him the year to capture the High Line’s landscape. A year later, Sternfeld photographs played a significant role in building a constituency for saving the line for public use. His photos showed that this clunky industrial object really could become a green space in the sky (Goldberger, 2011; La Farge, 2014). Around sixty years ago, Berenice Abbott another American photographer best know for her black-and white documentary photographs of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s, was capturing the same railroad and the near area for the New York City

In July 1909, Lewis W. Hine wrote a report about the alarming “slave-like” working condition and child labor in the canneries of Baltimore, Maryland.

In the Joe Cherwinski’s essay, “Early Working-Class Life on the Prairies,” he highlights the harsh environments of the working and living conditions, which the working-class people in the early decades of the 20th century experienced. How workers worked in the mines, on the railways, in the lumber industry, and etc. were all subjected to long hours that were often tedious work and at times working in the extreme climate of the prairie. And their accommodations were crowded and unsanitary. He addresses the contrast between the working-class and the commercial elite, who had used their position in the exploitation of their workers, which in turn created tension between the workers and the social class, especially among the immigrant workers.

For some, a picture is just a beautiful work of art, but for Lewis Hine photography was a way to communicate a message to the world. When Hine was taught the photographic process, it was still being established. This being said, photojournalism was also just evolving as a method to visually communicate information. In an effort to better his photography skills, Hine began to photograph the immigrants of Ellis Island. He was very adamant about social reform and reflected this in his work. Lewis Hine’s captivating photos inspired social change in America for the less fortunate.

The goal of the Progressive movement was to advance American society and make life better by making others aware of problems in society. Several actions were taken to accomplish this goal. For example, both working and living conditions were dreadful, and something had to be done. This prompted people to expose the negative aspects in America and make society better as a whole. These types of people were called “muckrakers,” who focus attention on social conditions by searching out and publicly exposing corruption, misconduct, and delinquency of people or businesses. One of these actions taken was taking photographs of these conditions. Jacob Riis took photographs of the conditions of tenements (where poor people were forced to live) in his book, “How the Other Half Lives.” The photos illustrated how these poor families were living in such cramped and dirty conditions. His motivation for capturing these pictures was to show wealthy people how horrifying this truly was. In addition, from 1908 to 1912, another photographer, Lewis Hine took his camera across America to photograph children as young as three years old working for long hours, often under dangerous conditions, in factories, mines, and fields. Overall, the actions taken by Riis and Hine contributed to the Progressive

The violent markings of the photo album and its images, however, produce an equally powerful message that jars the memory as it disrupts and distorts the photographic chronicle of her life and that of her family and friends. The result is a complex visual experience that addresses the use of images in producing knowledge and making history.