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Author Nemerov, Alexander, author

Title Soulmaker : the times of Lewis Hine / Alexander Nemerov
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016

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Contents Soulmaker -- The man from Oshkosh -- The ceremonial architecture of time -- Everyday violence -- Haunted -- We work in the dark
Summary Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont and Massachusetts to Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri. Using his camera as a tool of social activism, Hine had a major influence on the development of documentary photography. But many of his pictures transcend their original purpose. Concentrating on these photographs, Alexander Nemerov reveals the special eeriness of Hine's beautiful and disturbing work as never before. Richly illustrated, the book also includes arresting contemporary photographs by Jason Francisco of the places Hine documented. Soulmaker is a striking new meditation on Hine's photographs. It explores how Hine's children lived in time, even how they might continue to live for all time. Thinking about what the mill would be like after he was gone, after the children were gone, Hine intuited what lives and dies in the second a photograph is made. His photographs seek the beauty, fragility, and terror of moments on earth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.
SUBJECT Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 fast
Subject Working class -- United States -- Pictorial works
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
Social conditions
Working class
SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140526
Subject United States
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400881277
1400881277