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Soulmaker : The Times of Lewis Hine / Alexander Nemerov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nemerov, Alexander, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--United States--Pictorial works.
- Working class.
- United States--Social conditions--Pictorial works.
- United States.
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.
- Hine, Lewis Wickes.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont and Massachusetts to Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri. Using his camera as a tool of social activism, Hine had a major influence on the development of documentary photography. But many of his pictures transcend their original purpose. Concentrating on these photographs, Alexander Nemerov reveals the special eeriness of Hine's beautiful and disturbing work as never before. Richly illustrated, the book also includes arresting contemporary photographs by Jason Francisco of the places Hine documented.Soulmaker is a striking new meditation on Hine's photographs. It explores how Hine's children lived in time, even how they might continue to live for all time. Thinking about what the mill would be like after he was gone, after the children were gone, Hine intuited what lives and dies in the second a photograph is made. His photographs seek the beauty, fragility, and terror of moments on earth.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Soulmaker
- Chapter 2. The Man from Oshkosh
- Chapter 3. The Ceremonial Architecture of Time
- Chapter 4. Put the Headlines to Bed
- Chapter 5. Haunted
- Chapter 6. We Work in the Dark
- Bibliographic Notes
- Index
- Photo Credits
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781400881277
- 1400881277
- OCLC:
- 932491903
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