Friday, September 14, 2012
Great white and black photographers Biography
Lewis Hine Biography: In 1904 Lewis lane photographed immigrants from Ellis Island and the tenements and sweatshops where they lived and worked. When it was WWI he was working as a photographer with red cross, and later he took a picture of the destruction of the Empire state Building.
Born on: September 26,1874
death on:November 03,1940
Education: After he graduated high school he had various jobs before enrolling the university of Chicago in 1900.
Lewis Hine published: Charities and the Commons in 1908.
Child Laborers in the Carolinas(1909)
Day Laborers Before their time(1909))
He worked at the red cross, and he was photographed relief in American and Tennessee Valley authority(TVA), and stared documenting life in the mountains of eastern Tennessee. The library of Congress still holds more than five thousand Hine photographs, including examples of his Child Labor and Red Cross Photographs, work portraits, and his WPA And TVA images. including large institutional Collections include Ten thousand of Hines Photographs and Negatives held at George Eastman House and at the university of Maryland,Baltimore County, Later in 1936, Hine was selected as photographer for the National Researcher of works projects Administration, but he never completed his work.
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