Lewis Hine as Social Critic by Sampsell-Willmann, Kate

Lewis Hine as Social Critic

This is the first full-length examination of Lewis H. Hine (1874-1940), the intellectual and aesthetic father of...
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Author: Kate Sampsell-Willmann
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Lewis Hine as Social Critic by Sampsell-Willmann, Kate

Lewis Hine as Social Critic

CHF 114.41

Lewis Hine as Social Critic

CHF 114.41
Author: Kate Sampsell-Willmann
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

This is the first full-length examination of Lewis H. Hine (1874-1940), the intellectual and aesthetic father of social documentary photography. Kate Sampsell-Willmann assesses Hine's output through the lens of his photographs, his political and philosophical ideologies, and his social and aesthetic commitments to the dignity of labor and workers.

Using Hine's images, published articles, and private correspondence, Lewis Hine as Social Critic places the artist within the context of the Progressive Era and its associated movements and periodicals, such as the Works Progress Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, the Chicago School of Social Work, and Rex Tugwell's American Economic Life and the Means of Its Improvement. This intellectual history, heavily illustrated with HIne's photography, compares his career and concerns with other prominent photographers of the day--Jacob Riis, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White.

Through detailed analysis of how Hine's images and texts intersected with concepts of urban history and social democracy, this volume reestablishes the artist's intellectual preeminence in the development of American photography as socially conscious art.



Author: Kate Sampsell-Willmann
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 10/05/2009
Pages: 331
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781604733686


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 12/11/2009 pg. 20

About the Author
Sampsell-Willmann, Kate: -

Kate Sampsell-Willmann is a visiting assistant professor of history at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, History of Photography, and American Quarterly.

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