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Lewis Hine 1874 - 1940
£5.00”I wanted to show the things that had to be corrected.” – Lewis Hine
Hine’s life work was done before working people became a fashionable photographic subject matter, his attitude to labour springing directly from his earliest contacts with Frank Manny and the Kellogs. It is American Progressionism. He believed in practical democracy for the good of everybody, without the wastage of human skills and energy; it is Dewey rather than Marx. We can learn much from Lewis Hine about photography, what its powers are, how it communicates. The fact that we also learn from Hine a good portion of our history will tell us something about his kind of art, and about photography itself.
A biography of the American photographer Lewis Hine with fifty-three photographs, and excerpts from an article by Valerie Lloyd.
16’x12’, offset printed, 8pp.
Published 1977 in collaboration with the Arts Council of Great Britain.