루이스 W. 하인의 300장이 넘는 사진은 20세기 초반의 작업 환경을 기록한 획기적인 다큐멘터리 이미지들로, 미국 노동법의 개혁에 기여했습니다. 이 책은 하인의 모든 작업 시기를 다루며, 어린 노동자들, 엘리스 섬에 도착한 새로운 이민자들, 그리고 엠파이어 스테이트 빌딩 건설 장면을 담은 사진들을 포함하고 있습니다.
Reforming Lens
Lewis W. Hine’s images of child labor and American working life
American photographer and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874–1940) was trained to be an educator in Chicago and New York before setting up his photography studio in 1912. One of the first to use the camera as a tool for social reform, Hine worked as photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, the Red Cross, and the National Research Project of the Works Progress Administration. His photographs were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States.
Peter Walther has edited various publications on literary, photographic, and contemporary historical themes, including books on Goethe, Fontane, Thomas Mann, Hans Fallada, and writers in the First World War, as well as several illustrated books with historical color photographs. He is the author of the TASCHEN publications The First World War in Colour (2014), New Deal Photography. USA 1935–1943 (2016) and Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes (2023).
Lewis W. Hine. America at Work
Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.07 kg, 544 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-7234-7
Reforming Lens
Lewis W. Hine’s images of child labor and American working life
American photographer and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874–1940) was trained to be an educator in Chicago and New York before setting up his photography studio in 1912. One of the first to use the camera as a tool for social reform, Hine worked as photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, the Red Cross, and the National Research Project of the Works Progress Administration. His photographs were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States.
Peter Walther has edited various publications on literary, photographic, and contemporary historical themes, including books on Goethe, Fontane, Thomas Mann, Hans Fallada, and writers in the First World War, as well as several illustrated books with historical color photographs. He is the author of the TASCHEN publications The First World War in Colour (2014), New Deal Photography. USA 1935–1943 (2016) and Anna Atkins. Cyanotypes (2023).
Lewis W. Hine. America at Work
Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.07 kg, 544 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-7234-7
