Lewis Hine Biography

Lewis Hine biography

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NAME: Lewis Wickes Hine
OCCUPATION: Photographer
BIRTH DATE: September 26, 1874
DEATH DATE: November 03, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH: Oshkosh, Wisconsin

PLACE OF DEATH: Hasting-on-Hudson, New York

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Lewis Hines was a photographer known for his documentation of exploited child workers and government projects.

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In 1904, Lewis Hine photographed immigrants at Ellis Island and the tenements and sweatshops where they lived and worked. In 1911 he was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to record child labor conditions, and he produced appalling pictures of exploited children. In WWI he worked as a photographer with the Red Cross and later photographed the construction of the Empire State Building.