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  Lewis Wickes Hine: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Lewis Wickes Hine
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), was an American photographer.
For Lewis Wickes Hine the camera was both a research tool and an instrument of social reform.
Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin[?], Hine studied sociology at the University of Chicago and Columbia and New York Universities.
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 Lewis Hine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Hine studied sociology at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and New York University.
In 1908, Hine photographed life in the steel-making section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the influential study, "The Pittsburgh Survey." During and after World War I, he documented American Red Cross relief work in Europe.
Hine was also a member of the faculty of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.
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 Lewis Hine
Lewis Wickes Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1874.
Hine was to photograph New York tenement homework.
Hine’s photographs alerted the public to the fact that child labor deprived children of childhood, health, education and a chance of a future.
www.photocollect.com /bios/hine.html   (884 words)

  
 NYPL Digital Gallery | Lewis Wickes Hine: Documentary Photographs, 1905-1938
The commission was only partly completed; Hine mounted the earliest series uniformly with typed captions on dark gray board (which accounts for the unusual appearance of some of the photos presented here); and chose photos for the later series, but died in 1940 before preparing the latter group for library use.
Hine was drawn to Ellis Island and the "new immigration," a contemporary term for the waves of newcomers arriving from southern and eastern Europe and elsewhere.
Hine's interest in child welfare and the social conditions of the American industrial working class followed naturally as he became immersed in the reform movement, which grew with the rising social consciousness of his time.
digitalgallery.nypl.org /nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=all&collection=LewisWickesHineDocum&col_id=175   (648 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Hine Lewis Wickes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940), American photographer, who was one of the pioneers in the field of social documentary.
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 Lewis Wickes Hine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lewis Wickes Hine (September 16, 1874 - November_3, 1940), was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (Someone who takes photographs professionally) photographer.
Born in (additional info and facts about Oshkosh, Wisconsin) Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Hine studied (The study and classification of human societies) sociology at the (A university in Chicago, Illinois) University of Chicago, (A university in New York City) Columbia University, and (additional info and facts about New York University) New York University.
Hine was also a member of the faculty of the (additional info and facts about Ethical Culture Fieldston School) Ethical Culture Fieldston School.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Le/Lewis_Wickes_Hine.htm   (295 words)

  
 Magazine Antiques: Lewis Wickes Hine: the final years - photographer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lewis Wickes Hine died in 1940 in obscurity and abject poverty in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Hine continued to teach at the Ethical Culture School until 1908, but by 1906 he was providing photographs to many social welfare organizations in New York and elsewhere and for the magazine Charities and The Commons (renamed the Survey in 1909).
Hine made them in the darkroom of the Photo League, where, in 1938, he befriended and was a mentor to the young Walter Rosenblum.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_5_154/ai_53272528   (1325 words)

  
 LEWIS WICKES HINE, INDIANA CHILD LABOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 1908, CA. 1912
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874­–1940) was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the youngest of three children of Douglas Hill and Sarah (Hayes) Hine, both natives of New York state.
Hine was educated at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and New York University, the last of which awarded him a Pd.M. degree in 1905.
Hine began to use a camera in 1903, photographing immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and in their living and working environments.
www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/P0407.html   (676 words)

  
 Lewis Wickes Hine - Photographer Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lewis Wickes Hine (September 16, 1874 - November 3, 1940), was an American photographer.
For Hine the camera was both a research tool and an instrument of social reform.
Between 1906 and 1908, he was a freelance photographer for The Survey, a leading social reform magazine.
www.photographerencyclopedia.com /biography/31   (286 words)

  
 Lewis Wickes Hine (Getty Museum)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lewis Hine was trained to be an educator in Chicago and New York.
For nearly ten years Hine was the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, contributing to exhibitions and the organization's publication, The Survey.
In 1936 Hine was appointed head photographer for the National Research Project of the Works Projects Administration, but his work for them was never completed.
www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a1601-1.html   (208 words)

  
 Lewis Hine
Hine, who had purchased his first camera in 1903, employed his photographs in his teaching and established what became known as documentary photography.
Hine's critics claimed that his pictures were not "shocking enough".
Hine never tried hard for a single effect; he was usually not pictorially dramatic and many of his photographs appeared flat - not shocking enough for his contemporaries.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /IRhine.htm   (838 words)

  
 A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: HINE, Lewis Wickes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lewis Hine was an American sociologist who took up photography in 1905 and used it as a documentary tool, to show the working class conditions of the poor immigrants from Europe.
Hine met with considerable opposition from the employers, who accused him of muck-raking.
Hine discovered and exposed some appalling conditions, such as children aged six or seven having to work as many as twelve hours a day.
www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/hine.htm   (403 words)

  
 Worcester Art Museum - Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years
Lewis Wickes Hine was a photographer with a conscience, who sought to affect social change through his images of the working class.
Best known for his depictions of the harsh reality of child labor during the first decade of the 20th century, Hine later turned his camera on men and women at work.
This exhibition of over 40 images from the Brooklyn Museum of Art explores Hine's later work from the 1930s, which deals primarily with representations of adult laborers.
www.worcesterart.org /Exhibitions/Past/hine.html   (141 words)

  
 Worcester Art Museum - Documentary Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine Exhibition
The exhibition, Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years, opening at the Worcester Art Museum on April l, will present more than 40 prints from the Brooklyn Museum of Art's extensive Hine holdings.
While Hine's earlier work depicting the harsh realties of child labor showed the danger and horrors of the industrial age, his later images of adult laborers-photographs of women in New England mills, migrant field hands in the South and construction workers in New York, for example-seemingly show more positive images of an industrialized society.
A tour of the exhibition, Hine Sight, will be conducted by Museum docent Pat Peterson on Wednesday, April 11 at 2PM and on Saturday, April 14 at 2PM.
www.worcesterart.org /Information/PR/Past/3-13-01.html   (535 words)

  
 Profotos - Lewis Hine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Biography: Lewis Wickes Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1874.
Hine's Documentary work on the Construction of the Empire State building During 1930-1931.
Hine's Documentary work on the State of Child Labor in America Between 1908-1912.
www.profotos.com /education/referencedesk/masters/masters/lewishine/lewishine.shtml   (960 words)

  
 Lewis Hine In Europe The Lost Photographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Best known for his moving portraits of immigrants on Ellis Island, of child laborers in factories and mines, and of steel workers balanced on high girders of the Empire State Building, Hine was far ahead of his time in using the camera to document social conditions in America.
Hine returned to Paris and then set out again to document the suffering in formerly German-occupied areas of Belgium and northern France.
Author Daile Kaplan finally was able to break the code, identify Hine's photographs, and reintroduce to the world the best of this master's "lost" photographs--an event that not only brings to light a completely new body of Hine's work but gives him his due, at last, as a true pioneer of photojournalism.
www.riversidebook.com /hine.html   (281 words)

  
 Lewis Wickes Hine --  Encyclopædia Britannica
U.S. jazz musician John Lewis was born on May 3, 1920, in La Grange, Ill., and grew up in Albuquerque, N.M. He became the leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet in 1952, as its pianist, and he also composed music for jazz, ballet, cinema, and theater.
Lewis died on March 29, 2001, in New York...
The innovative Lewis Model relates the terms of trade between less developed and more developed nations to their respective levels of labor productivity in agriculture.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9040523?tocId=9040523   (696 words)

  
 Directory - Kids and Teens: Arts: Photography: Photographers: Hine, Lewis Wickes
About Lewis Hine  · cached · Features a short biography from the New York Public Library and photographs of the nation's turn-of-the-century factories.
Lewis Hine  · cached · Provides an in-depth look at the photographer's life and his accomplishments.
Lewis Hine  · iweb · cached · Tells about the photographer's life and includes examples of his work.
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 Hine, Lewis Wickes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lewis Hine - Provides an in-depth look at the photographer's life and his accomplishments.
Lewis Hine - Tells about the photographer's life and includes examples of his work.
Child Labor Photographs by Lewis W. Hine - 480 of Hine's photographs for the National Child Labor Committee of children working in mills, mines, factories, fields, and city streets.
www.simiax.com /KidsandTeens/Arts/Photography/Photographers/Hine,LewisWickes   (150 words)

  
 photography and publishing: photographers -- Lewis Wickes Hine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The photograph was taken by Hine in June, 1911.
Lewis Hine is one of the most notable photographers to use the medium to promote social reform.
Hine worked as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), documenting working and living conditions of children in the United States during 1908-21.
histclo.com /photo/photo/photog/pho-hine.html   (245 words)

  
 Lewis Wickes Hine Online
Lewis Wickes Hine at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Lewis Wickes Hine in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
All images and text on this Lewis Wickes Hine page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 Gourt :: Kids and Teens :: Arts :: Photography :: Photographers :: Hine, Lewis Wickes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
About Lewis Hine: Features a short biography from the New York Public Library and photographs of the nation's turn-of-the-century factories.
Lewis Hine: Provides an in-depth look at the photographer's life and his accomplishments.
Lewis Hine: Tells about the photographer's life and includes examples of his work.
www.planetreport.com /Top/Kids_and_Teens/Arts/Photography/Photographers/Hine,_Lewis_Wickes   (223 words)

  
 Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 - 1940) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Hine was appointed the head photographer for the National Research Project of the Works Project Administration in 1936.
Frederick Christian Lewis (the elder), Scenery of the Rivers of England and Wales (London: Longmanä [and] for the proprietor F. Lewis, [1845]), 1845
Thomas Hine and Rosemarie Haag Bletter examined the cultural and theoretical issues that have shaped American design from 1975 to 2000.
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 CADwire.net - Directory > Arts > Photography > Photographers > Masters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hine, Lewis - Image collection of children working in mills, mines, factories, fields, and city streets.
Hine, Lewis Wickes: Empire State Building - Lewis Hine was commissioned to photograph the construction of the building in 1930.
Lewis Wickes Hine's Work Portraits - Lewis Wickes Hine's self described "work portraits" series began shortly after World War I. In this work, he chose to glorify the inextricable communion between the worker and the machine.
www.cadwire.net /directory/dir.asp?/Arts/Photography/Photographers/Masters/Hine,_Lewis   (168 words)

  
 Indelible Images - Spiders in the Sky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For six months in 1930, Lewis Wickes Hine was on top of the world.
In 1919 Hine joined the American Red Cross to document the human costs of war by photographing refugees throughout Europe.
Hine saw a relationship between the men who can and do construct their world by seeing art in what people do and in how people construct."
www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues02/jan02/indelible.html   (561 words)

  
 Broome High School Tapestry of Textiles Lewis Hine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Eddie Norton, a sweeper in the Saxon Mill, Spartanburg, was photographed by the child labor reformer Lewis Hine on May 17, 1912, for the U.S. Child Labor Commission.
Biography of Lewis Hine - brief profile of the photographer.
Lewis Hine Gallery, The - tribute to the photographer which consists of a series of his photographs.
www.spa3.k12.sc.us /Broome/hine.htm   (206 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hine traveled the nation with his camera taking photographs, sometimes despite risk to his person.
The text of the book serves partly as a brief biography of Lewis Hine, and partly as explanatory backdrop for the scenes in the photographs.
Lewis Hine's pictures tell the story and Russell Freedman's words add a greater depth to this sometimes sad yet beautiful celebration of children at work during the early 20th century.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0613070046   (888 words)

  
 Gracie Clark, Spinner, With Her Family (Getty Museum)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gracie Clark, the tense looking girl in the white dress, posed for Lewis Hine with her parents and four younger siblings.
Hine was known to sneak into factories and warehouses under false pretenses to make photographs of child laborers in as realistic settings as possible.
As one historian noted, "Hine was a firm believer in the power of knowledge to vanquish evil." Introducing middle-class America to the ugly truth about children's working conditions, Hine's photographs were a powerful tool in social reformers' efforts to fight child labor.
www.getty.edu /art/collections/objects/o68047.html   (173 words)

  
 Hine, Lewis Wickes - Books - Magic Bean Dip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Men At Work by Lewis Hine is a beautiful collection of 69 photographic studies of men and machines originally published in 1932.
Hine was able to find normal subjects and turn them into to amazing, interseting images.
Lewis W. Hine's famous photographs document the construction of the Empire State Building, the world's tallest building at that time.
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 Andrew Lenaghan: New Paintings / Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) focused his camera on an urban America, his purpose both artistic and documentary.
"Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years" is a collection of photographs taken in the 1930s for the National Research Project of the Farm Security Administration--a study intended to determine the impact of industrialization on employment opportunity.
Machines take center stage in many of these photographs, a focus mandated by the study's director, but factory-working men and women and the conditions they endured are captured in vivid and touching detail.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/1aa/1aa396.htm   (441 words)

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