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Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) recorded child labor in the United States. His pictures were instrumental in changing the child labor laws.

He said:

“[Photographers are] the Human Document to keep the present and the future in touch with the past”

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Lewis Hine, who was best known for his use of photography as a means to achieve social reform, was first a teacher of botany and nature studies at the Ethical Culture School in New York.

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It was while he was teaching that he was given a camera by the head of the school. In his hand, the camera became a powerful means of recording social injustice and labor abuses.

Hine’s interest in social welfare and in reform movements led him in 1905 to begin his first documentary series; immigrants on Ellis Island.

In 1908 he left teaching to become an in