Untitled 1909

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Lewis Hine’s 1909 photograph "Untitled" depicts a young boy working in a field. The image is a powerful example of Hine's social documentary photography, which focused on exposing the harsh realities of child labor in early 20th-century America. Hine's work, often taken in black and white, aimed to raise awareness and promote social change. This particular photo, with its stark composition and the boy's solemn expression, captures the innocence lost to the realities of child labor, a stark contrast to the picturesque fields where the work takes place.

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Lewis Hine was a documentary photographer, educator, and social reformer. Trained in sociology, Hine taught at the progressive Ethical Culture School in New York City before turning his attention to photography. As a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Hine traveled the United States to document children in unsafe working conditions in factories, mines, fields, and city streets. Over ten years, he created an indelible record of the human cost of an exploitative labor market, documenting the tired faces of children at the end of their shifts, or even children mutilated by industrial machinery. These disturbing photographs were used in publications and presentations created by Hine and the NCLC, and ultimately promoted sweeping policy changes designed to protect children.