The temporal power of Hine is worrisome. In March 1911, he took a picture of eleven-year-old Sadie Kelly, a shrimp picker, while she was traveling to work in Port St. Louis, Mississippi. With a controlled face and a shaved head, …
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Lewis Hine captured three teenage mill workers staring back at him in a November 913 shot taken in Kosciusko, Mississippi. They stopped and were arranged in front of him, their black stockings holding them firmly in place. They had come …
Lewis Hine’s unsuccessful images, his failures, demonstrate the terrifying potential of this power. He took pictures of two “dinner-toters” in front of the Riverside Cotton Mills in Danville, Virginia, in June 1911. In the mills, the girls carry their baskets …
The photographer looks at the Whitnel spinner in astonishment and says nothing. The touchstones for an encounter between a stranger and photographer are uncertainty, tentativeness, and fumbling ecstasy. These moments will prompt a confession, a soulful revelation “out of the …
Lewis Hine took up photography at the Ethical Culture School, learned that lesson well. His Whitnel spinner, not to mention other young girls he photographed toiling at their machines in the Carolinas in 1908 steps out of folklore. We can …
Lewis Hine socialist working for the National Child Labor Committee, made the photograph in December 1908. That year Hine’s acquaintance and friend, the tireless socialist writer John Spargo, wrote that “the liberation of the soul” is the highest aim of …
The photographer directs their camera towards a realm of things that have already been formed as a realm of purposes, values, and significances. However, throughout the perceptual process, these qualities may not be immediately apparent, but rather seen as inherent …
Photography is primarily defined by its tools and is subject to the limitations imposed by its mechanical characteristics. Consequently, it cannot be integrated into the artist’s personal and expressive work and, as a result, cannot be considered a trademark in …
At the intersection between photography and the law, at this historical forefront of legal practice, we observe the process of property creation, the recognition of the creator as a legal person, and the establishment of the sphere of trades between …