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In 1900 Hine followed Darrow’s route on the track back to Chicago to work, study, and live in Hyde Park, Darrow’s neighborhood. In contrast with Sherman’s “face-minded” portrait likenesses or Joseph Stella’s artistic character studies in Americans in the Rough (1905), Hine’s “eye-minded” photographs were “Ever the human document.”

A fresh idiom, a pejorative form of visual slang to the artistic purists, Hine’s first body of photographs lacking technical sophistication gave a new direction to perspectives on the social experience of common working people, wherever they came from.

At the turn of the twentieth century, political controversy fomented by nativists, racists, and eugenicists were inflaming public opinion.

Being an immigrant was more than a social category, represented by continuous series of portraits mounted on museum walls. UWO Archives Series 107 Box 8. Amusement 16. By late 1904, Hine made the first of many visits to Ellis Island to document this movement. Hine gained recognition and was soon commissioned for other work.

During WWI, the American Red Cross hired Hine to photograph the relief mission to France and the Balkans.

A Hine viewer “encounters” the range of emotions inimitably expressed by the dominating eyes at a moment frozen in camera time. Abolition of cheap women and child labor 3. With Manny’s encouragement, Hine eventually became a teacher, and studied under two of the most recognized liberal educators of the time: John Dewey and Ella Flagg Young.

In 1901, Manny became superintendent of the Ethical Culture School in New York.

Hine, from the beginning, considered his photography as an educational tool in addition to an art form. bjb

• 04-16-1910, Volume 24
• 04-23-1910, Volume 24
• 05-28-1910, Volume 24
• 07-30-1910, Volume 24
• 08-20-1910, Volume 24
• 08-27-1910, Volume 24
• 09-10-1910, Volume 24
• 09-24-1910, Volume 24
• 07-8-1911, Volume 26
• 07-22-1911, Volume 26
• 08-12-1911, Volume 26
• 09-16-1911, Volume 26
• 09-23-1911, Volume 26
• 04-6-1912, Volume 28
• 07-29-1912, Volume 28
• 08-24-1912, Volume 28
• 08-28-1912, Volume 28
• 08-31-1912, Volume 28
• 09-14-1912, Volume 28
• 12-16-1912, Volume 28

WOMEN IN THE TRADES, PHOTO BY HINE (1909) 

During Lewis Hine’s formative years growing up in Oshkosh, employers, management, and absentee owners relegated work and working people into a shadowy background.

In correspondence between Addams and her publishers, the costs of printing photographs, both on full-page glossy pages and on text pages never appeared to be at issue or an obstacle to publication.

The editors of The American Magazine’s decided to commission Lewis Hine for photographs on Chicago’s West Side.

His life would have been threatened if the factory owner discovered his true identity, since many of them were violently against social reform. Currently unknown in the industrial world, “social photography” would address “the urgent need for the intelligent interpretation of the world’s workers.”  bjb

JANE ADDAMS “AUTOBIOGRAPHY,” American Magazine, PHOTO BY HINE (1910)

In the Fall of 1910, Macmillan & Co.

published Jane Addams’s signature book, Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes. Manny saw a need for visualizing the school activities (this was in many ways one of the most progressive schools in the country) so he conceived the idea of having a ‘school photographer’ and I was elected to the job.” Hine could not explain why Manny chose him since “I never had a camera in my hand ….

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THE WORKING WOMAN, PHOTO BY HINE (1908-1913)

THE CITY, STREET-LAND, PHOTO BY HINE (1909-1915)

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