Studied sociology then was hired New York at a Ethical Culture School. He purchased his first camera in 1903, employed his photographs in his teaching and established what became known as documentary photography.
Hine also used his camera to capture the poverty he witnessed in New York. n 1908 Hine published Charities and the Commons, a collection of photographs of tenements and sweatshops. Hine hoped he could use these photographs to help bring about social reform. Hine was a strong advocate against child labor and strongly fought against it. And was sucessful in his campaign against it. Sadly and slightly ironically Lewis Wickes Hine died in extreme poverty eleven months later on 3rd November, 1940.
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