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Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs that were taken during times such as the Progressive Era and the Great Depression, which captured the result of young children working in harsh conditions, played a role in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.
In effect, Hine's photographs became the face of the National Child Labor Committee, and are among the earliest examples of documentary photography in America. [10] Lewis Hine was an influential photo journalist in the years leading up to the First World War. It was during those years that the American economy was doing well, and the need for ...
"Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pormal Cotton Mill. Vt." by Lewis Hine, 1912. Hine's photographs were designed to turn public opinion against child labor. This image was used on a 1998 US stamp to commemorate the passage of the Keating–Owen Act. [24] [full citation needed]
Lewis Hine's photographs of child labourers in the 1910s powerfully evoked the plight of working children in the American south. Hine took these photographs between 1908 and 1917 as the staff photographer for the National Child Labor Committee .
Social documentary photography has its roots in the 19th-century work of Henry Mayhew, Jacob Riis, and Lewis Hine, but began to take further form through the photographic practice of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the USA. The FSA hired photographers and writers to report and document the plight of poor farmers.
The New York School of Philanthropy was the first higher education program to train people who wanted to work in the field of charity, including child development and youth work, in the United States. It was established with a six-week summer program in 1898, and expanded to a full-year program in 1904. [11] 1899 John Dewey
The number of childfree women is at a record high: 48 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 44 don’t have kids, according to 2014 Census numbers. The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree.
Lewis Hine's Power house mechanic working on steam pump (1920), an iconic depiction of industrial work and masculinity File:Lewis Hine Power house mechanic working on steam pump edit.jpg Edit 1 by Fir0002, cleaned, downsampled, slight sharpening/contrast. This is an iconic Lewis Hine photograph from 1920, created for the Works Progress ...