Sentences with phrase «hine photographs»

Jackson alludes to the famous Lewis Hine photographs of workers way atop the almost - completed Empire State Building — little do they know the space will soon be occupied by a giant gorilla.

Appropriated from the Library of Congress» photographic archive, the images depict adolescent textile workers — primarily young women with physically misshapen backs — that Hine photographed to illustrate the damaging effects of textile manufacturing on the spine.

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A small sampling of the wide range of content that may be found here includes artwork such as Goya's Disasters of War; panoramic cityscapes of New York City's Fifth Avenue; George Caitlinâ $ ™ s North American Indian Portfolio; William Blake's hand - printed masterpiece of 1793, America a Prophecy; as well as 16th - century maps and drawings depicting the landing of European explorers in the Western Hemisphere; engravings of battle scenes of the American Revolution; photographs recording the westward progress of the American transcontinental railroad; sheet music covers and restaurant menus from the 1890s; and photographs of Depression - era New York City by Lewis Hine and Berenice Abbott.

Lewis W. Hine's photographs of children working in mines, mills, and factories led Congress to try to regulate child labor, but the Supreme Court declared early laws unconstitutional.

Central to the exhibition is a series of early 20th century photographs by Lewis Hine that have been repurposed by the artist.

Swann Auction Galleries» 2018 auction season begins with photographs and photobooks from luminaries like Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Lewis W. Hine and others.

The duo's Art Institute selections include documentary and landscape photographs by Ansel Adams and Lewis Hine, and self - portraits by László Moholy - Nagy and his Bauhaus student Florence Henri.

Central to the exhibition was a series of early 20th century photographs by Lewis Hine that Oppenheim repurposed.

Hine traveled around the country photographing the working conditions of children in all types of industries.

The collaborative exhibition, «Threads,» looks at the history of child labor in the region, as told through the photographs of Lewis Hine.

Oppenheim reproduces Hine's clinical but oddly sensual photographs at human scale, each life - sized image bisected vertically along the subject's spine.

Hine became well known for his photographs documenting young factory workers in the beginning of the last century.

Based on early 20th century images found in the Library of Congress archive — a long - favored resource by Oppenheim — the photographs depict the backs of textile workers taken by documentary photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine.

Through her own processes of translation, Oppenheim performs the relationship of the body to mechanical production absent in Hine's photographs.

In the lead up to her exhibition, Oppenheim visited the Brooklyn Rail HQ to meet Managing Editor, Charles Schultz, and discuss her new work incorporating Lewis Hine's photographs, the joy she gets out of research, and the importance of supporting your peers.

Over half the work is photography: Diane Arbus, Lewis Hine, Andre Kertesz, as well as an extensive selection of nineteenth - century cartes - de-visite and cabinet photographs.

2014: Richard Avedon: People - the art of black / white portrait photography 2014: Guy Grey - Smith: Art As Life - WA landscape painter 2014: William Kentridge - The Refusal of Time 2013: Van Gogh, Dali and Beyond: The World Reimagined - 20 century art 2013: Made to Remember - Indigenous Art 2013: Picturing New York: Photographs from MOMA - Alfred Stieglitz, plus Cartier - Bresson, Helen Levitt, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Cindy Sherman.

The exhibition highlights familiar favorites from the collection, including classic documentary photographs by Walker Evans, Lewis Hine and Weegee, as well as major series commissioned by the museum from Lee Friedlander and Robert Glenn Ketchum.