Title: Photo story : selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine /
Authors: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.; Kaplan, Daile.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Hine, Lewis Wickes, Correspondence.; Photographers United States Biography
Abstract: Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) was a pivotal figure in the history of American photography. Instrumental in developing the social documentary genre, he is probably best known today for his photographs of immigrants at Ellis Island, child laborers, and European war refugees, and for his later celebrations of industrial worker - a series he referred to as Work Portraits. As early as 1914 Hine also coined the term photo story to describe creative assemblages of photographs.
Contents: 1. Becoming a Sociological Photographer, 1900-1910 -- 2. The Transition to Interpretive Photography, 1918-19 -- 3. The Work Portrait and the Evolution of Photojournalism, 1921-33 -- 4. Hine at Work: Editorial, Corporate, and W.P.A. Assignments, 1933-35 -- 5. The Politics of Documentary Photography, 1935-38 -- 6. The Social Documentary Photograph as Art, 1938-39 -- 7. Hope and Loss, 1939-40 -- Biographical Notes / Lewis W. Hine.