1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1874–1940 · UNITED STATES
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
- Born
- 1874
- Died
- 1940
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1910Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills
- 1920Steam Fitter
- 1930Empire State Building (construction series)
WHY THEY MATTER
His child labour pictures helped pass the first child labour laws in the United States; his archive went to the George Eastman Museum.
THE LIFE
Hine trained as a sociologist and taught before becoming photographer for the National Child Labor Committee in 1908. For a decade he documented children in mills, mines and fields. His images helped bring about the first child labour laws in the United States. He later photographed workers during the Progressive Era and the Great Depression.
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia
1883–1976 · United States · Photographer
Imogen Cunningham
Sharp-focus studies of plants, bodies and industrial forms.
Magnolia Blossom, 1925Source: Wikipedia