Lewis Hine

Lewis Wickes Hine was born September 26, 1874 in Oshkosh, WI. He was an American sociologist and photographer and he used his camera as a tool for social reform. He studied sociology at University of Chicago  Columbia, and New York. In 1906, Hine became part of the Russel Sage Foundation where he photographed life in the Steel making districts called the Pittsburgh Survey. Then in 1908 he joined the National Child Labor Committee leaving his teaching career. He also worked with the American Red Cross relief work in Europe. At the end of his life few people were interested in his work anymore and he died on November 3, 1940 at Dobbs Ferry Hospital in New York.