biography
| name: |
Hine, Lewis (Wickes)
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pronunciation:
[hiyn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1940)
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| biography:
| Photographer, born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. He studied sociology at Chicago and New York universities, making a photographic study of Ellis Island immigrants as an expression of his social concern. In 1909 he published the first of his many photo stories, such as ‘Little Spinner in Carolina Cotton Mill’, depicting children as young as eight in dangerous work. During World War 1 he documented the plight of refugees for the American Red Cross, and in 1930–1 hung upside down from a crane to photograph the construction of the Empire State Building, ‘Men at Work’ (1932). |
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