Great black and white photographers part 2

Lewis Hine 

Lewi Hine used photography to rais awareness of child labor. He toke photos of kids working in fields, factories, city streets etc. He was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on September 26,1874. Hine studied sociology before moving to New York in 1901 that is when he got in to photography. It was 1904 when he had begun a series of photographs documenting the arrival of immigrants at Ellis Island this and his pictures of harsh labor conditions he got peoples attention. He worked as the official photographer for the National Child Labor Committee from the years of 1911-1916 after that he worked with the red cross in Europe he documented the effects of World War I in France. He came back to the U.S in 1922 a couple of years later he toke photos of the construction of the Empire State Building. He is beast known for the photos of child labor though. Lewis Hine died in November 3 1940.