Lewis Hine

- Who was Lewis Hine, and what did he photograph?
Lewis Hine was an influential photographer in the early 1900's. Hine documented labor conditions and told the truth about how workers were being treated.
- How did he document his subject? What was his visual style? How did he try to make a connection with the viewer with his portraits?
Lewis Hine documented his subjects in their natural work state. He documented the reality of what working conditions in the early 1900's were like. His visual style was black and white and portraits. Most of the pictures were of individuals, either children in the field or construction workers hanging thousands of feet above the ground. He tried to make a connection with the viewer by having the subject look directly into the camera, as if they were staring right at you.
- How did he help change the world for the better?
Hine helped change the world by showing what the working conditions were in the United States in the early 1900's and his photographs became influential in changing the child labor laws in the United States. He is why there is an age on to how old you have to be to work and why we have minimum wage.