image by Lewis Hine, “A Little Spinner.” 1909 December 3, 1908. “A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her ‘sides’ like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that … Read More →
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Kinderarbeit.
Photographs by Lewis Hine dealing with child labor combined with a video showing child labor today.
Part of a series of posts.

Kinderarbeit.
image by Lewis Hine Harry McShane, 134 Broadway, Cincinnati. Sixteen years of age on June 29, 1908. Had his left arm pulled off near shoulder, and right leg broken through kneecap by being caught on belt of a machine in Spring Works factory [below] in … Read More →

Lewis Hine/Kinderarbeit.
image by Lewis Hine “Young office boy , 11 years old, working in a law office.” Caption by Lewis Hine

Lewis Hine/Kinderarbeit.
March 1909. Hartford, Connecticut. Tony Casale (also called "Bologna"), eleven years old. Been selling four years. Sells until 10 P.M. sometimes. His paper boss told me the boy had shown him the marks on his arm where his father had bitten him for not selling more papers. The boy said, "Drunken men say bad words to us." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Lewis Hine/Kinderarbeit.
image by Lewis Hine Sept. 28, 1910. Whites Bog at Brown Mills, New Jersey. Ten-year-old Rose Biodo, 1216 Annan St., Philadelphia. Working three summers. Minds baby and carries cranberries, two pecks at a time. Fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain … Read More →

Lewis Hine/Kinderarbeit.
In a society, where everything revolves around economic values,
in a society that just cares about the economic usability of human potential, people fall ill.

Lewis Hine/Kinderarbeit.
Lewis Hine, Solomon the Newsie, 1909. Began selling at 7 years of age. Been selling six years (four at night). Lewis Hines Arbeiten haben mich umgeworfen. Auf der Suche nach Material habe ich eine unglaublich Fülle im Internet gefunden. Die am besten aufbereitete Seite scheint … Read More →

Boris Mikhailov and Lewis Hine/ “jest hanging around”.
Boris Mikhailov is hurting so called good taste. He is hurting the rules of professional photography. His photography is pure trash. Lousy technique is his trademark.
He represents the opposite of all those clean, technically perfect, static photographs, which seem to be en vogue today by all those well-educated artist photographers in the States.
Es war nahe liegend, nach Jock Sturges Arbeiten,
in Kinder und Jugendliche zu Seh-Objekten gemacht wurden,
Auszüge aus Wendy Ewalds Projekten vorzustellen,
in denen Kinder zu Subjekten werden,
und ihre Welt selbst fotografieren.


The Hidden Face Of Globalization
image by Lewis Hine, 1911 Noon hour in the Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co., South Pittston. January 1911. “Breaker boys,” or slate pickers, sat astride the breaker chutes, through which the coal roared, and picked out slate and other debris by hand. Boys as young … Read More →