1. Lewis Hine

2. Biography
Lewis Hine was born on the year 1874
(Wisconsin), and died on the 1940.
He entered in the University at the 1900,
and in the next ten years he realized that he
wanted to be photographer while he works
for the National Child Labor Committee
reporting the situation of the child workers.
At 1932 he published his collection Men At
Work about the Empire State's construction.
Finally he died in the same condition of the
people he photographed.

3. Topics of the author's work
● The Hine's work is famous for
his photos that reflected the
hard conditions of work of a
lot of workers (the most were
inmigrants) during and then
the Big Depression.
● With his photos, Hine
denounced with ingenuity the
inhuman conditions in which
workers were working.

5. ● This photo is a part of his
work Men At Work about the
Empire State's construction.
● In the photo appears some
workers having lunh over a
beam hanged in the air,
without any protection and
like it was the most normal
thing in the world.
● With the Chicago city at the
background, represented the
'boom' of the construction of
skycrapers in Chicago then of
the fire that destroyed the
city.

7. ● This photo is a part of his
work for the National Child
Labor Committee.
● In the photo appears some
children who worked in a
factory. They are dirty (sign
of their life conditions), and
all have old coats.
● Except the boy who is more
left all are serious or
expectant for the photo,
representing the situation in
wich they lived.