print email comment close Lewis Wickes Hine's "Work Portraits" URL: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/workport/work1.html Description: Features 20 photos from "Lewis Wickes Hine's self described 'work portraits' series [which] began shortly after World War I when he returned from Europe. ... This time, instead of documenting the decrepit working conditions of men, women and children in American factories, he chose to glorify the inextricable communion between the worker and the machine in a more positive way." Includes a brief biography. From the New York Public Library. Publisher: New York Public Library Library of Congress Subject Headings: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 People Photographers -- United States Work -- Photographs LII Database Information: Record 14898 created by Dennis Maness on 03/19/2004 Last modification on 03/24/2004 Published: 03/19/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/14898