Media 175 Principles of Digital Photography

Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine

Presented by Rosann Beauvais

November 3, 2013

Lewis Wickes Hine1874-1940

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera” Lewis Hine

Lewis Hine was a photographer whose pictures spoke more powerfully then words. He quit his position as a teacher in order to travel around

the country and photograph abusive child labor conditions.

Photo by Lewis Hine

“In my early days of my child-labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment … but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show” Lewis Hine

Photo by Lewis Hine

Photo by Lewis Hine, Bibb Mill #1 Macon, Georgia

Photo by Lewis Hine

“Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance” Lewis Hine

Photo by Lewis Hine, Canning Factory, Dunbar, Louisiana

Photo by Lewis Hine, Farrand Packing Co. Baltimore, Maryland

Photo by Lewis Hine

“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph” Lewis Hine

Resourceshttp://www.masters-of-photography.com

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos/

http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/nd/visual-evidence/lewis-hine-photographs/

http://petapixel.com/2013/09/07/lewis-hines-photography-end-child-labor-united-states/

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