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Book Lewis Hine in Europe

Download or read book Lewis Hine in Europe written by Daile Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers Hine's photographs showing the devastation of World War I in France, Italy, Greece, and Serbia, and explains how he developed the photo essay.

Book Lewis Hine as Social Critic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Sampsell-Willmann
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781604733686
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Lewis Hine as Social Critic written by Kate Sampsell-Willmann and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length examination of Lewis H. Hine (1874-1940), the intellectual and aesthetic father of social documentary photography. Kate Sampsell-Willmann assesses Hine's output through the lens of his photographs, his political and philosophical ideologies, and his social and aesthetic commitments to the dignity of labor and workers. Using Hine's images, published articles, and private correspondence, Lewis Hine as Social Critic places the artist within the context of the Progressive Era and its associated movements and periodicals, such as the Works Progress Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, the Chicago School of Social Work, and Rex Tugwell's American Economic Life and the Means of Its Improvement. This intellectual history, heavily illustrated with HIne's photography, compares his career and concerns with other prominent photographers of the day--Jacob Riis, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White. Through detailed analysis of how Hine's images and texts intersected with concepts of urban history and social democracy, this volume reestablishes the artist's intellectual preeminence in the development of American photography as socially conscious art.

Book Men at Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lewis Wickes Hine
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1977-01-01
  • ISBN : 0486234754
  • Pages : 65 pages

Download or read book Men at Work written by Lewis Wickes Hine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hine, widely known for his photographs of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and his studies of child labor, brings enormous technical ability and sensitivity to these images of construction workers, railroad and factory workers, miners, foundation men, welders, and the builders of the Empire State Building.

Book Soulmaker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander Nemerov
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2016-03-29
  • ISBN : 1400881277
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Soulmaker written by Alexander Nemerov and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal reassessment of Lewis Hine's iconic, haunting photos of child workers in the early twentieth century Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874–1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont and Massachusetts to Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri. Using his camera as a tool of social activism, Hine had a major influence on the development of documentary photography. But many of his pictures transcend their original purpose. Concentrating on these photographs, Alexander Nemerov reveals the special eeriness of Hine's beautiful and disturbing work as never before. Richly illustrated, the book also includes arresting contemporary photographs by Jason Francisco of the places Hine documented. Soulmaker is a striking new meditation on Hine's photographs. It explores how Hine's children lived in time, even how they might continue to live for all time. Thinking about what the mill would be like after he was gone, after the children were gone, Hine intuited what lives and dies in the second a photograph is made. His photographs seek the beauty, fragility, and terror of moments on earth.

Book Lewis Hine

Download or read book Lewis Hine written by Timothy J. Duerden and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 80 years after his death, Lewis Hine's name is revered in the world of photography and practically synonymous with the labor reforms of the Progressive Era. His body of work--much of it a century old or more--remains vital as both aesthetic statement and social document. Drawing on a range of sources, including information from surviving family members, this first full-length illustrated biography presents a detailed and personal portrait of the sociologist and photographer whose haunting images of children at work in cotton mills and coal mines sparked the movement to end child labor, culminating with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. There are 62 of his penetrating photographs included.

Book In Sight of America

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  • Author : Dr. Anna Pegler-Gordon
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-04-28
  • ISBN : 0520944631
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book In Sight of America written by Dr. Anna Pegler-Gordon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants--regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work is the first to take a comprehensive look at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture. Including many previously unpublished images, and taking a new look at Lewis Hine's photographs, Anna Pegler-Gordon considers the role and uses of visual documentation at Angel Island for Chinese immigrants, at Ellis Island for European immigrants, and on the U.S.-Mexico border. Including fascinating close visual analysis and detailed histories of immigrants in addition to the perspectives of officials, this richly illustrated book traces how visual regulations became central in the early development of U.S. immigration policy and in the introduction of racial immigration restrictions. In so doing, it provides the historical context for understanding more recent developments in immigration policy and, at the same time, sheds new light on the cultural history of American photography.

Book One for the Road

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  • Author : Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
  • Publisher : One for the Road
  • Release : 2008-01-07
  • ISBN : 1847994539
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book One for the Road written by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen and published by One for the Road. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on experience from 60 countries worth of independent travel, the author takes you on three journeys to places you may never have considered visiting, although you probably should and you definitely could. Learn about a low-budget cruise to Antarctica, understand what the Trans-Siberian Railway really is like, enjoy the natural wonders of Southern Africa. The book is a fun read, but you will also learn about far-away destinations and about how to travel independently anywhere. It's not a travel guide or a travel journal, it's both!More details, including free downloads, available from http://bjornfree.com/

Book Lewis W  Hine s Social Photography   Immigrants at Ellis Island 1904 1909

Download or read book Lewis W Hine s Social Photography Immigrants at Ellis Island 1904 1909 written by Sonja Longolius and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, University of Hamburg (Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the first decade of the 20th century, when Lewis W. Hine took his first photo series at Ellis Island, 7 million immigrants came to the United States of America. In 1907 immigration's peak was reached, when almost 3.000 immigrants, most of whom came from Southern and Eastern Europe, entered the New World on a daily basis. After Ellis Island had re-opened its gates for the immigration procedure in 1900, more than 75 percent of all immigrants who came to the United States entered the country through the port of New York City. In regard of these immigration numbers, one needs to ask how the inhabitants of New York City and American citizens in general reacted towards this mass immigration. In comparison to former immigrants, who mostly came from Northern and Western Europe, these "new" immigrants were not welcomed at all. Severe prejudices had already developed towards persons from countries which many native-born Americans seemed to consider as "undesirable" ones at that time. Mainly people's fear resulted from ignorance, because to them these immigrants seemed to be an indistinguishable mass which overcrowded America. Many people feared that these immigrants would take away their jobs and living-space. There seemed to be little sympathy for those needy homeless, whose foreign appearance and different customs irritated the citizens of New York and elsewhere in the country. When Lewis W. Hine went to Ellis Island to portrait those "huddled masses", he must have had all those fears and prejudices against these newly arrivers in mind. Undoubtedly, there was a "great public interest in the issue of immigration" when he started his project in 1904 and Hine "was by no means the first, or only, photographer to work at Ellis Island." Nevertheless,

Book Lewis Hine

Download or read book Lewis Hine written by Timothy J. Duerden and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 80 years after his death, Lewis Hine's name is revered in the world of photography and practically synonymous with the labor reforms of the Progressive Era. His body of work--much of it a century old or more--remains vital as both aesthetic statement and social document. Drawing on a range of sources, including information from surviving family members, this first full-length illustrated biography presents a detailed and personal portrait of the sociologist and photographer whose haunting images of children at work in cotton mills and coal mines sparked the movement to end child labor, culminating with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. There are 62 of his penetrating photographs included.

Book Lewis Hine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Worth
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-07-09
  • ISBN : 1317466128
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Lewis Hine written by Richard Worth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Wickes Hines documentary photography helped promote the cause of the National Child Labor Committee, which published there declaration in 1913. This text is a collection of photographs showing children at work from 1910 to 1935 as Hines travelled across America.

Book Kids at Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Russell Freedman
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780395797266
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Kids at Work written by Russell Freedman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A documentary account of child labor in America during the early 1900s and the role Lewis Hine played in the crusade against it.

Book Explorers Emigrants Citizens

Download or read book Explorers Emigrants Citizens written by Linda Barrett Osborne and published by Anniversary Books Srl. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this book, the authors have selected 500 images related to the rich history of Italian Americans from the Library of Congress's holdings of photographs, maps, posters, letters, films, and sound recordings. The book's narration is supported by never-b

Book Children of Ellis Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barry Moreno
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780738538945
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Children of Ellis Island written by Barry Moreno and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burdened with bundles and baskets, a million or more immigrant children passed through the often grim halls of Ellis Island. Having left behind their homes in Europe and other parts of the world, they made the voyage to America by steamer. Some came with parents or guardians. A few came as stowaways. But however they traveled, they found themselves a part of one of the grandest waves of human migration that the world has ever known. Children of Ellis Island explores this lost world and what it was like for an uprooted youngster at America's golden door. Highlights include the experience of being a detained child at Ellis Island--the schooling and games, the pastimes and amusements, the friendships, and the uneasiness caused by language barriers.

Book Lewis Hine in France

Download or read book Lewis Hine in France written by Patrick Wang and published by Patrick Wang. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) was an American sociologist and photographer best known for his work with the National Child Labor Committee documenting appalling child labor conditions throughout the United States. In the 1920s and 1930s, he consciously shifted to creating more positive images of America at work, such as constructing the incredible heights of the Empire State Building or operating glittering new machinery with its promise of prosperity. In the spring of 1918, Hine travelled with the American Red Cross to Europe to photograph the organization’s work during the war. Newly arrived in Paris, a part of him seems to see the city as through the excited eyes of a tourist. Although employed by the Red Cross, there was little daily supervision of his activities, and so Hine’s camera feels freer than it has ever been. Amidst the cruelty of war, his photographs and captions relate stories of deep tenderness and joy. Following the Armastice in November 1918, Hine would travel on to photograph Italy and the Balkans. However, this book focuses on the photos he took in France during those intense first months after his arrival in Europe—the final months of World War I.

Book Walter Rosenblum Retrospective

Download or read book Walter Rosenblum Retrospective written by Walter Rosenblum and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Counting on Grace

Download or read book Counting on Grace written by Elizabeth Winthrop and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future.

Book Reading American Photographs

Download or read book Reading American Photographs written by Alan Trachtenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barnard and A.J. Russell; the Western survey and landscape photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, A.J. Russell, and Carleton Watkins; and social photographs and texts by Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine; as well as documentaries inspired by the Depression, esp. Walker Evans's American Photographs.