Child Labor by Lewis Hine/Publicity Photographs
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Child Labor by Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 -1940), photographer, sociologist andhumanist, is best known for his insightful portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island and his unflinching views of housing and labor conditions in the United States. Studying and eventually teaching at the Ethical Culture School in New York City, Hine translated his humanist concerns into a style of documentary photography that set the standard for delivering a social message through his photography. He explored the immigrant experience with his camera and exposed the terrible housing and working conditions. Believing in the power of photography to persuade authorities to enact better housing codes for tenements and labor laws protecting children, Hine approached social welfare agencies about using his images for reform campaigns and began to do freelance work for the National Child Labor Committee. In 1907 he was invited to participate in the Pittsburgh Survey, which was designed to investigate the living and working conditions of that heavily industrialized city. In 1908, the NCLC provided Hine a monthly salary to photographically document children in factories, mills, canneries, textile mills, street trades, and agricultural industries. Through his photographs he sought to alert the public to the extent of child labor in America, and the degree to which it
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