Lewis Hine
Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs taken during times such as the Progressive Era and the Great Depression captured young children working in harsh conditions, playing a role in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.
Quotes
[edit]- There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.
- In 1908, quoted in "Teaching With Documents: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor", National Archives (February 21, 2017) [1]
- While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.
- "Social Photography; How the Camera May Help in the Social Uplift", Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction at the Thirty-sixth Annual Session held in the City of Buffalo, New York, June 9-16, 1909, ed. Alexander Johnson (Fort Wayne, IN: Press of Fort Wayne, 1909) pp. 355-59 [2]
- If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t have to lug a camera.
- Quoted in Susie Allen, "Bodies of work", The University of Chicago Magazine (Spring 2017) [3]
