Between 1908 and 1917; the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874ndash;1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee; he photographed children in textile mills; coal mines; and factories from Vermont and Massachusetts to Georgia; Tennessee; and Missouri. Using his camera as a tool of social activism; Hine had a major influence on the development of documentary photography. But many of his pictures transcend their original purpose. Concentrating on these photographs; Alexander Nemerov reveals the special eeriness of Hines beautiful and disturbing work as never before. Richly illustrated; the book also includes arresting contemporary photographs by Jason Francisco of the places Hine documented.Soulmaker is a striking new meditation on Hines photographs. It explores how Hines children lived in time; even how they might continue to live for all time. Thinking about what the mill would be like after he was gone; after the children were gone; Hine intuited what lives and dies in the second a photograph is made. His photographs seek the beauty; fragility; and terror of moments on earth.
2015-10-15 2015-10-15File Name: B016P967CE
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