Industrial Hazard, Steel Worker
Lewis Wickes Hine
c. 1915
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 24.5 × 19.4 cm (9 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Classification
gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
96831
About the Artist
Lewis Wickes Hine · 1874–1940
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940) was born on September 26 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to Douglas and Sarah Hine, who ran a coffeehouse and restaurant on Main Street. After his father's accidental death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound around 1892, the teenage Hine supported his widowed mother and sisters through various jobs while pursuing education. He attended Oshkosh Normal School, where he met ment...