Lewis
Hine
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1 Essay.
Lewis Hine was born in 1874 and died 1940. Hine was a teacher during a class project his photography gain notice. After that he became a Photographer with his main focus being on sociological issues he felt needed to be corrected. Hine by his own words was a photo-interpretation photographer because of this and the fact his work was used more for specific agenda he was not a photojournalist.
Lewis Hine was a photographer for a group
known as National Child Labor Committee. This
committee was organized to protect children from unfair labor laws and unsafe
work environment. Lewis Hines photos gave the drive that the National Child
Labor Committee needed to have laws changed. He did this by taking photos of
child workers while they were working in their unsafe work environment.
Hine would
often gain access to the factories that he took photos in by means of deception.
He would impersonate such roles as a Bible salesman, insurance agent, Industrial
photographer and postcard seller. Once he was in one of the factories he would
take photos of the children, without the factories management knowing his true intention.
Thanks to Lewis
Hine’s efforts the National Child Labor Committee was able to influence
congress enough for a constitutional amendment to be created; The Fair
Labor Standards Act was passed in 1938. Shortly after Hine would die with
little money to his name.
I think Hine had a purpose like in most of
his work for his efforts to take photos on the skyscrapers during construction.
I believe his purpose was to show the extremes of the danger involved in the building
of skyscrapers like the empire state building by looking at his work I’d say he
got his point ac across. I believe the
nature of a man should not be judged by how much wealth he left behind it should
be measured in a number of things. Such as how many people he helped or how big
a wrong he righted. If you were to measure the life of Lewis Hine with these criteria,
you would see him worth he was truly valued at.
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