Lewis Hine was born on September 26th,1874 and raised in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In his early years he was enrolled at the University of Chicago. After graduating Hine accepted a job as a schoolteacher in New York, hoping he could expand his career in this city. Hine purchased his first camera in 1903, to capture and document images from school events. This type of photography mesmerized him and after observing the child labor and poverty in New York he began to expand his career as a documentary photographer. These issues concerned Hine because as, a schoolteacher he, was concerned about the children of New York. In 1908 the National Child Labor Committee was intrigued by Hine's images and this political branch employed Hine as their staff investigator and photographer.
Lewis Hine continued to expand his line of work by traveling to the country to capture images of children working in factories. Hine accurately took images of these situations to reveal his campaign against child labor. As a documentary photographer his portraits reveal self-expression and the idea of hope. His portraits portray images of children working in factories or sleeping on the street corners in order to emphasize sadness and depression.
In 1916 the congress finally researched Hine's protests and arguments and agreed to pass a legislation stating the protection of children. In 1919 Hine returned to New York, after successfully proving his point and he moved on to another assignment involving the Red Cross during the First World War.
There were several famous photographers who were either in the same line of work or took images on similar subjects as Lewis Hine. Jacob Riis and Dorothea Lange were two photographers who based their images on child labor. Jacob Riis was a photographer who came before Lewis Hines works, where as Dorothea Lange came after.
Jacob Riis's Photographs:
Dorothea Lange's Photographs:
Websites:
-"Lewis Hine." Spartacus Educational - Home Page. N/A, n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2010. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRhine.htm>
-"Photography in the United States ." Spartacus Educational - Home Page. N/A, n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2010. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAphotographers.htm>
- "NYPL, Photography Collection." The New York Public Library. N/A, n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2010. <http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/workport/work1.html>
- "Jacob Riis : Biography." Spartacus Educational - Home Page. N/A, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. < http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAriis.htm>
- "Dorothea Lange - Women Come to the Front (Library of Congress Exhibition)." Library of Congress Home. N/A, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2010 < http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html>
Books: Panzer, Mary. Lewis Hine . New York: Phaidon, 2002. Print.
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