Main entry:

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.

Title & Author:

America & Lewis Hine : photographs 1904-1940 / foreword by Walter Rosenblum ; biographical notes by Naomi Rosenblum ; essay by Alan Trachtenberg ; design by Marvin Israel.

Publication:

Millerton, New York : Aperture, Inc., [1977]
New York City : Rapaport Printing Corporation
©1977

Description:

142 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm

Notes:
"An Aperture Monograph"--Title page.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition, A Retrospective of the Photographer Lewis W. Hine, 1874-1940, held at the Brooklyn Museum, March 12-May 15, 1977; and then traveling to University Art Museum, Berkeley; The Denver Art Museum; Chicago Historical Society; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-142).

Summary:

A compassionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcend the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality. Seventy years after they were made, his Ellis Island pictures are still intensely moving: the newly arrived immigrants caught in all their bewilderment-- uncertain as to whether they will even be admitted to the promised land. How bitterly ironic that this artist and social reformer, after devoting his life to working people, should end up as so many of his subjects did-- on a welfare line. Decades earlier, he had written: "For many years I have followed the procession of child workers winding through a thousand industrial communities from the canneries of Maine to the fields of Texas. I have heard their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game where the odds are all against them." Like Walt Whitman before him, Lewis Hine viewed his work and art as grounded in the fluid movements of everyday lives, of history, the present and the future, expressing with vividness and responsiveness the hope for America revived in a sense of great community, and democracy as a life of free and enriching communion.
Hine's dynamic images changed the way Americans looked at social conditions. Hine put his life on the line to capture a truthful picture of people at work. He risked physical attack in order to expose the brutal exploitation of child labor; then, years later, he had himself suspended from the hundredth floor of the Empire State Building to preserve on film the workers who were in the process of erecting it. Never content merely to depict labor's dehumanizing features, Hine shows us the dignity of work, the workers dominate the instruments of their labor-- the open hearths, mine pits, shovels, tongs and trolleys. Only a consummate camera-artist could have made such pictures, with their poignant qualities of light and shadow, their inescapable presence: all the more remarkable when we consider his cumbersome instrument-- a tripod-mounted 5 x 7 view camera with slides, flash pan, and powder.

ISBN:

0893810088 cloth
9780893810085
0893810177 paper
9780893810177
0893810169 museum edition
9780893810160

Subject:

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 Exhibitions.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.
Hine, Lewis W. (Lewis Wickes), 1874-1940.
Hine, Lewis W., 1874-1940.
Documentary photography United States Exhibitions.
Photographers United States Biography.
Documentary photography.
Documentary photography United States.
Photographie documentaire.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies.
Photographie documentaire États-Unis.
Photographie documentaire États-Unis Expositions.
documentary photography.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Photographers
Photos.
United States
Hine, Lewis Wickes 1874-1940

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Biographies
Exhibition catalogs.
Biographies (form)
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Rosenblum, Walter, 1919-2006, writer of foreword.
Rosenblum, Naomi, contributor.
Trachtenberg, Alan, writer of supplementary textual content.
Israel, Marvin, book designer.
Trachtenberg, Alan
Brooklyn Museum, host institution.
University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum, host institution.
Denver Art Museum, host institution.
Chicago Historical Society, host institution.
Carnegie Institute. Museum of Art, host institution.
Yale University. Art Gallery, host institution.
Aperture, Inc., publisher.
Brooklyn Museum
Retrospective of the photographer Lewis W. Hine, 1874-1940

America and Lewis Hine

Holdings:

Location: Library main 11743
Call No.: TR140.H662 (ID:87-B3058)
Status: Available