About US-American Photographer, Lewis W. HINE (1874-1940)
Lewis W. HINE was working as a teacher at the Ethical Culture School in New York when he became self-taught in photography. Initially, he took portraits of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. After completing his documentary on child labor in the U.S., he went to Europe in 1918 for the American Red Cross to record the aftermath of World War I. He then went to the U.S. to work as a photographer. Back in the States, he captured the construction of the Empire State Building in images that he published in his famous coffee table book 'Men at Work'. Lewis W. HINE died impoverished in New York in 1940.
Fotobücher von und mit Werken von Lewis W. HINE
- 'Men at Work' (1932, 1977); 'Lewis Wickes Hine. Retrospective' (1939); 'Lewis W. Hine and the American Social Conscience' (1967, 1974, introduced by Cornell CAPA); 'Lewis W. Hine' (1980); 'Women at Work' (1981); 'Photographs of Child Labor in the New South' (1986); 'Lewis Hine in Europe' (1988); 'Lewis Hine' (1991); 'Lewis Hine. Die Kamera als Zeuge. Fotografien 1905-1937' (1996); 'America and Lewis Hine: Photographs, 1904-40' (1997); 'The Empire State Building' (1998, 2001); 'Children at Work' (1999); 'Phaidon 55' (2002); 'Lewis Hine as Social Critic' (2009); 'Children Laborers' (2011); 'Lewis Hine' (2011, 2012); 'Rochester Newsies' (2013); 'Picturing Class' (2015); 'Soulmaker' (2016); 'Photographer and American Progressive' (2018); 'America at Work' (2018, 2022); 'When Innovation Was King' (2018); 'The Boss Don't Care' (2019); 'Lewis Hine revisited' (2019);
Exhibitions (a selection)
- 1939: Riverside Museum, New York;
1971: Museum Folkwang, Essen, germany;
1977: Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany;
1978: Bahnhof Rolandseck, Bonn, Germany;
1980: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzrland;
1990: Musée Carnavalet, Paris;
1992: Centre National de Photographie, Paris;
1996: Photokina, Cologne, Germany;
2000: Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, germany;
2002: Laurence Miller Gallery, New York;
2004: Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, USA;
2005: Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York;
2006: Centro Culturale di Milano, Milan, Italy;
2008: 'Facing the Other Half', George Eastman House, Rochester, USA;
2009: Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany;