Main entry:

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.

Title & Author:

Photo story : selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine / edited by Daile Kaplan.

Publication:

Washington , London : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1992]
©1992

Description:

xxxvi, 192 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 181) and index.
Becoming a Sociological Photographer, 1900-1910 -- The Transition to Interpretive Photography, 1918-19 -- The Work Portrait and the Evolution of Photojournalism, 1921-33 -- Hine at Work: Editorial, Corporate, and W.P.A. Assignments, 1933-35 -- The Politics of Documentary Photography, 1935-38 -- The Social Documentary Photograph as Art, 1938-39 -- Hope and Loss, 1939-40 -- Biographical Notes / Lewis W. Hine.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) was a pivotal figure in the history of American photography. Instrumental in developing the social documentary genre, he is probably best known today for his photographs of immigrants at Ellis Island, child laborers, and European war refugees, and for his later celebrations of industrial worker - a series he referred to as Work Portraits. As early as 1914 Hine also coined the term photo story to describe creative assemblages of photographs and text. These were designed to make powerful educational and artistic statements on the printed page - twenty years before the editors of Life magazine "invented" the format. Photo Story broadens the perspective on Hine by charting his pioneering role as both a social documentary photographer and photojournalist. Daile Kaplan includes material from his earliest years, 1904-12, as he made the transition from teacher to photographer at the Ethical Culture School in New York; through the spring of 1918, as he photographed war refugees and relief programs for the American Red Cross throughout Europe; to 1920-39, as he chronicled the construction of the Empire State Building and completed Work Portraits for corporations and federal agencies.
The book features previously unpublished credos, diary entries, and letters exchanged with such important figures of the photographic, art, and social welfare communities as Beaumont Newhall, Walter Rosenblum, Berenice Abbott, Elizabeth McCausland, Roy Stryker, and Paul U. Kellogg. The letters to his longtime collaborator Kellogg, the editor of the Survey Graphic, form the book's centerpiece. Often witty and lyrical, the letters reveal Hine's early influences in the social welfare community; his views about Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession (a group of art photographers, led by Stieglitz, who eschewed social photographs for soft-focus, mood-manipulating images); and his perception of his own photographs as "art." The correspondence sheds light on his decision to become a freelance photographer and pursue the Work Portraits; his attempts to be hired by the Farm Security Administration's photographs division; his debt to Newhall, Abbott, and McCausland for rediscovering him in the late 1930s and mounting the Riverside Museum retrospective; and his financial struggles in the postwar years.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1560981695 (alk. paper)
9781560981695 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 Correspondence.
Hine, Lewis W. (Lewis Wickes), 1874-1940.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 Correspondance.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.
Hine, Lewis 1874-1940
Hine, Lewis Wickes.
Photographers United States Biography.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies.
Photographers.
Briefsammlung
United States.
Photojournalism

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies.
Personal correspondence.

Added entries:

Kaplan, Daile, editor.
Kaplan, Daile.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 75286
Call No.: ID TR140.H52.A3; ID:92-B2509
Status: Available