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| Icarus Atop Empire State Building, Lewis Hine,
1931 |
Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
Hine was a sociologist whose photographs captured his concern for immigrants
and working-class people. Early in his career, he documented the newly
arrived immigrants at Ellis Island and worked for the National Child
Labor Committee as an investigator and photographer studying children
working in sweatshops, canneries, coal mines and cotton mills. After
World War I, Hine began to photograph men and women at work in the
newly mechanized environment, thus emphasizing the human side of modern
technology.
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