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The Encyclopedia of Photography’s Art and History

"Men at Work", Lewis Hine (1874-1940) | PhotoAnthology

Men at Work

Lewis Hine (1874-1940)

Industrial labor, human dignity, and photographic realism during the Machine Age.

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Men at Work

Lewis Hine (1874-1940)

Industrial labor, human dignity, and photographic realism during the Machine Age.

Mechanic at Steam Pump in Electric Power House, ca. 1921

Derrick Man, ca. 1931

Workman on the Framework of the Empire State Building, 1930

Icarus, Empire State Building
1930-1931

Engineman, Pennsylvania , ca. 1924

Three Riveters, Empire State Building, 1931. Image courtesy of Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne.

Empire State Building
1930-1931

The McClain Brothers (On the Mooring Mast, Empire State Building), ca. 1930

First Aid to the Injured

Holyoke, Massachusetts - Paper. American Writing Paper Co.

Steelworker on Empire State Building, 1931

Man with Micrometer Measuring a Shaft to a Thousandth of an Inch, ca. 1920–1929

Precision Worker, 1925

Turbine mechanic, ca. 1920

Workers operating machinery manufactured by Vulcan Iron Works, ca. 1925

Steelworker touching the tip of the Chrysler Building,
ca. 1931

Workers on girder, 1930-1931

Derrick and workers on girder,
1930-1931

Books

Lewis Hine

D.A.P., 2012

Lewis Hine

T.F. Editores, S.L.C., 2012

Lewis Hine

Phaidon, 2002

Lewis Hine as Social Critic

University Press of Mississippi, 2009

Lewis Hine: Photographer and American Progressive

McFarland & Company, 2018

Lewis W. Hine

Actes Sud, 1999

Lewis W. Hine: America at Work

TASCHEN, 2018

Lewis W. Hine: The Empire State Building

Prestel, 1999

Photo Story: Selected Letters and Photographs of Lewis W. Hine

Smithsonian Institution, 1992

America & Lewis Hine

Aperture, 1997

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