Lewis Hine was an American photographer best known for the images he made while working for the National Child Labor Committee. Hine’s interest in photography as an educational tool prompted him to ...

Trained as a sociologist, Lewis Hine picked up a camera and trained it on the cheap labor performed by children in American factories and on farms. The exploitation shocked the public, Hine’s poetic ...

On September 26, 151 years ago, Lewis Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He was a teacher who became a pioneering photographer, defending children’s right to education by denouncing child labour ...

There was a time when newspaper boys delivered the afternoon paper on their bicycles after school or, in urban areas, waved the latest edition crying out a sensational headline. The plight of these ...

Lewis Hine, Ellis Island, and pragmatism : photographs as lived experience -- Social testimony : Lewis Hine's expertise -- Lewis Hine and American economic life -- Between the wars : "the very best ...

"Whatever happened to that child worker?" Motivated by this question, Joe Manning has identified some of the more than 5,000 child laborers photographed in the early 1900s by Lewis Hine, and has ...

It's always nice to check in with photographer Lewis Hine, but these days it's particularly meaningful. Made in the first decades of the 20th century, his images occupy a vital cultural space in ...

A grid of photos from ICP’s Zoe Strauss exhibition, assembled in this way to evoke their original installation under the I-95 in Philadelphia. In her first major museum exhibition, Zoe Strauss engages ...

Legislatures in 16 states, Florida prominent among them, have been deliberating rolling back child labor laws. In some cases, major steps have already been taken to loosen restrictions on work by kids ...