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Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine
Alexander Nemerov
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Description for Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 114 color illus. 10 halftones. BIC Classification: AJB; AJCP; AJCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 216. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691170176
SKU
V9780691170176
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About Alexander Nemerov
Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University. His books include Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov, Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s (Princeton), and Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War.
Reviews for Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine
Finalist for the 2016 Marfield Prize, The National Award for Arts Writing, Arts Club of Washington This book by Alexander Nemerov ... is a fascinating exploration of Hine's work during the period 1908 to 1917 when he was photographing child labour. But it goes beyond a documentation of the time, place and photographer to an analysis of the work ... Read more