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, c. 1930 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 "Bootblack in the Bowery, New York, 1910 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, c. 1911 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 "Sewing Machine Girls, c.1917 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Building the Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Construction Workers at the Empire State Building, c. 1930 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 "Bootblack at 3rd Avenue and 9th Street, New York City 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 "New York City from the Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "5-year-old newsboy Tommy Hawkins, only 3 ft 4 ins tall, working in St. Louis, Missouri, 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_at_Hughestown_Borough_Coal_Co_Pittston_Penn_-_(MeisterDrucke-133265).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 "Three Young Newsboys Smoking, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Power House Mechanic, 1925 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 "Young Russian Jewess, Ellis Island, 1905 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 "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 "Young Girl Writing on Chalkboard in Classroom, Pleasant Green School, Marlinton, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, USA c.1921 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Untitled, from the series \"Black Southerners\" by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Doctor Examining Young Mill Worker, Cheney Silk Mills, South Manchester, Connecticut, c. 1924 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 "Black Alley Housing Whites, Washington, D.C. by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_at_-_(MeisterDrucke-120133).jpg "A six year old Polish girl picking berries all day with her family (Scholtz) at Rock Creek near Baltimore, Maryland, 1909 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1730692).jpg "Empire State (The Hoister) by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Detail of the Manner in Which the Fabric is Formed by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1004222).jpg "Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in the early 20th century by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Fourteen-Year-Old Vendor at Cigar Store, Boston, Massachusetts by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_seller_at_Sixth_Street_Market_-_(MeisterDrucke-1722064).jpg "Lena Lochiavo - 11 years old, basket (and pretzel) seller, at Sixth Street Market in front of saloon entrance, Cincinnati, Ohio by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Annie Bissie Picking Berries in the Fields Near Baltimore, Maryland, 1909 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1540417).jpg "Wagon Boy or")
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.jpg "A Little Shaver, Indianapolis by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Double Shear by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Blower and Mould Boy at Seneca Glass Works, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1908 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 "Printer and Craftsman by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Old Fashioned Brakeman on Freight Train by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Portrait of a powerhouse mechanic by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait with Newsboy by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Newsboys, Brooklyn Bridge by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Brakeman on Coal Train, Pennsylvania by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Piece Dyeing by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Rosie, Aged 7, Illiterate, Working for a Second Year as an Oyster Shucker at Varn und Platt Canning Company, Bluffton, South Carolina by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Lunchtime by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "This Man, Scotch, Was Called The Poet Of The Mines, Eastern Pennsylvania Coal Mine by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Bleach Room Boy, Leon Halcourt, 16 Years Old, Lawrence, Massachusetts by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "A Pupil in Pleasant Green School - Pocahontas County, West Virginia 1921 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Biloxi, Mississippi by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Young Boy in a Workshop by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Powerhouse Mechanic by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "The Empire State Building: Skyscraper Workers by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "An English Miner, Pennsylvania 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 "Worker at Grinding Machine 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 "Little Mother, Pittsburgh by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Untitled by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Unknown Image 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 "High on the Empire State Building, N.Y. 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 "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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.jpg "8:30 P.M. Group of Newsboys Selling at Depot, Hartford, Connecticut, March 1909 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Messenger Boys Turning in Uniforms at Postal Telegraph Co., New York City by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Steelworkers at Russian Boarding House, Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1907-8 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 "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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.jpg "Powerhouse Mechanic, c.1924 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "At Home, Pittsburgh 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 "Climbing up the Beams on the Empire State - 100 Stories Up by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Boy Making Baskets for Melons at Evansville, Indiana by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Construction worker empire state building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Workers from Salvan Medicine Factory, St. Louis, Missouri by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Child Labor on the Farm by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Derrick Man, Empire State Building, 1930-31 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 "Breaker Boys Are No Longer Needed, This Is A Modern Breaker by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Welsh Coal Miner, West Virginia Mine by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Breaker Boy in Pennsylvania Coal Mine 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 "Old Time Garment Shop, New York City by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "The Ball Team Composed Mostly of Glassworkers, Indiana by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Driver in Pennsylvania Coal Mine by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "West Virginia Coal Mine by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Dave, a Young Pusher, Moving Trams and Coal, at Bessie Mine, Alabama (Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co), 1910 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "View of Lower Manhattan from the Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "English Coal Miner by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Untitled, ca. 1935 by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Powerhouse Mechanic by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Frank Wiegel of Brooklyn, Injured After Working 18 Hours a Day at 15 Years Old by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "The Final Stages of the Mast, the Street is Some Quarter Mile Below by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Chicago Slums by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Head Newsboy, Utica, New York State by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Sitting on Beam, The Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "Edward St. Germain and his sister Delia, mill workers, Phoenix, Rhode Island by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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.jpg "The Turbine, Power-House, New York City by Lewis Wickes Hine")
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