This is a photo that i took to get a little feeling or a little taste about my photographer, Lewis Hine. This is a black and white photo that I saturated and left 2 colors out, the red on the school and the blue on the sidewalk. You could see the shadows of the trees that shows the darkness of the black and the light that shows the white. I think that this is a very nice and beautiful picture.

Lewis Hine

Lewis Wickes Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on 26th September, 1874. He studied sociology in Chicago and New York (1900-07) before finding work at the Ethical Culture School. Hine, who had purchased his first camera in 1903, employed his photographs in his teaching and established what became known as documentary photograph. Hine travelled the country taking pictures of children working in factories. In one 12 month period he covered over 12,000 miles. Factory owners often refused Hine permission to take photographs and accused him of muckraking. To gain access Hine sometimes hid his camera and posed as a fire inspector. Hine worked for the National Child Labour Committee for eight years. Hine told one audience: "Perhaps you are weary of child labour pictures. Well, so are the rest of us, but we propose to make you and the whole country so sick and tired of the whole business that when the time for action comes, child labour pictures will be records of the past." Hine had great difficulty earning enough money from his photography. In January 1940, he lost his home after failing to keep up repayments to the Home Owners Loan Corporation. Lewis Wickes Hine died in extreme poverty eleven months later on 3rd November, 1940. 

Lewis Hine Photography

Can you tell from this picture what the girl’s job is? Is it boring or dangerous? How can you tell? Though the picture is still. Can you tell if the machines move? How can the girl keep up with all the work the machine makes for her? Little children worked alongside adults in many mills and factories. This girl was responsible for pulling out the tangles that formed from the thread spinning furiously onto the bobbins.

American History Photography

 

What would it be like without a camera or photographs? There will be no memory's at all. There is always a story behind the pictures. Camera's was not invented until the 19th century, the two basic elements of a camera had been well known for hundreds of years. Photography took many twists and turns as people experimented with chemicals to make the image capturing more practical. As the rage for Daguerrotype reigned, the discovery was being made that latent images in reverse color were revealed to be present after only short exposures. These paper negatives could then be washed, chemically treated and used to make positive paper prints.

The Brownie Camera

In 1900, the Eastman Kodak Company introduced a low-priced, point-and-shoot, hand-held camera, called the Brownie. The Brownie camera was designed, priced, and marketed to have wide appeal.The Brownie camera was a simple, black, rectangular box covered in imitation leather with nickeled fittings. To take a "snapshot," all one had to do was hold the camera waist height, aim, and turn a switch. The Brownie camera was very affordable, selling for only $1 each.