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When photography first saw the light of day, the moment was captured for the first time.
Well, at first the motionless moment because you weren't allowed to move otherwise the pictures would be blurred and out of focus.
But later on, it was really the moment without filters and editing.
The result was time documents of people in the respective circumstances of their lives.
The observer saw pure life.
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Today, photography is a great magic of magical changes with filters, tools and even AI to merely not depict reality.
Just an idea in the absolute optimum format.
Our motto is either you can photograph or you can edit photographs. Everyone should decide for themselves, but there's nothing better than capturing the perfect moment in time. Just take a photo, see it, shoot it and that's it.
Lewis Hine's Photography
Lewis Hine was a sociologist and photographer who documented laborers and the conditions they worked in across America in the early 1900's. He was a staff photographer for the National Child Labor Committee for a while, and he photographed child laborers in an effort to enact social and legal reforms to protect children.
Several of his photographs live rent free in my head, so I'm putting them here!
Newsies at Skeeters Branch, St. Louis, Missouri
This is probably the photo I think about the most. Newsboys were considered independent contractors, and so weren't subject to labor laws. Any papers they bought, they couldn't sell back, so if they didn't sell all their papers for the day, they had a loss. Hine took several pictures of newsboys.
Top: Roland, Eleven Year Old Negro Newsboy, Newark, N.J. Bottom: Self-Portrait with Newsboy.
Left: Breaker Boys in Coal Mine, South Pittston, Pennsylvania Right: Drivers and Mules, Gary, W. Va
Breaker boys, as the name implies, broke large chunks of coal into more uniform sizes and sorted out impurities. Breaker boys were mainly children, though elderly and injured miners would also sometimes be employed as breakers. Boys might start as a breaker boy, but as they got older, they would often move on to different, more physically demanding jobs in the mine.
Some pictures of tiny children working.
Boy from Loray Mill
Vera Hill, 5 Years Old, Cotton Picker, Comanche County, Oklahoma
Left: George Barbee, 13 years old topping, Nicholas County, Kentucky. Right: Jennie Camillo, 8 years, cranberry picker, Pemberton, New Jersey
Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill
Left: 7-year old Rosie, oyster shucker, Bluffton, South Carolina
Right: Noon in East Side factory district, New York
Icarus Atop Empire State Building, 1931
Not all of Hine's pictures were of children. He took plenty of pictures of adults, too. This one is pretty spectacular, and very dramatically named.
Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts - Paragon Rubber Co. and American Character Doll. Building rubber doll moulds.
I really like this one because of the row of doll legs. It's amusing to look at. That, and the worker has massive arms. Fabulous.
Power House Mechanic
Another worker with excellent arms. According to the Brooklyn Museum, "The clean muscularity and precise industrial order presented by Lewis Hine in Power House Mechanic demonstrates the photographer’s shift, in 1919, from a gritty documentary style to what he called “interpretive photography”—an approach intended to raise the stature of industrial workers, who were increasingly diminished by the massive machinery they operated."
Soldier Thrown in Air, 1917
This picture really captures the joy of the moment and I like that.
Colored School at Anthoston, Kentucky, 1916.
I love pictures of old schools. My favorite are when all the students and the teacher are lined up in front of the school. This one has the kids inside the school, which is just as good. Here is a little history about African-American schools in Henderson County, Kentucky, which is where Anthoston is located.
My parents as children
Albert Camus