Gutman, Judith Mara, author.

Lewis Hine : when innovation was king : the WPA National Research Project photographs, 1936-37 / Judith Mara Gutman.

First edition.

Göttingen : Steidl ; New York : Howard Greenberg Library, 2017.
©2017

143 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 24 cm

In 1936, science-teacher turned photographer Lewis Hine was commissioned by the National Research Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration, to produce a visual document of the industries that the US government hoped would provide the jobs that would lift the country out of the Great Depression. Hine, already well-established as a chronicler of social conditions of his day, produced more than 700 photographs for this project, the last major work of his career. By emphasizing the inherent tension between machinery and workers, Hine imbued these compelling images with his characteristic rigor and aesthetic appeal. These photographs, and their implied message, are particularly relevant today given high unemployment rates and radical shifts in the role of the worker in the rapidly changing world economy. Included in this book is an essay by the eminent photographic historian, Judith Mara Gutman, in which she discusses the project and the photographs in the context of the economic conditions of the time and the artistic and technological innovations of the era. Co-published with the Howard Greenberg Library, New York.

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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.
National Research Project on Reemployment Opportunities and Recent Changes in Industrial Techniques (U.S.)
United States. Works Progress Administration.
Manufacturing industries United States Pictorial works.
Working class United States Portraits.
Photography, Artistic.
Documentary photography.
Photography, Industrial.
Travailleurs États-Unis Portraits.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie documentaire.
Photographie industrielle.
art photography.
documentary photography.
industrial photography.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical.
Working class
Manufacturing industries
United States

Photography, Artistic.
Documentary photography.
Photography, Industrial.
portraits.
Illustrated works
Portraits
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940. Photographs. Selections.
Gutman, Judith Mara, writer of supplementary textual content.
Gutman, Judith Mara. writer of supplementary textual content.

When innovation was king : the WPA National Research Project photographs, 1936-37

Location: Library main 303034
Call No.: BIB 249230
Status: Available