Lewis Hine Quotes

• Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

  Lewis Hine

  Photography, Ignorance, Light

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• If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

  Lewis Hine

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

  Lewis Wickes Hine, Daile Kaplan (1992). “Photo story: selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

  Lewis Hine

  Children, Work, Society

  Lewis Wickes Hine, John R. Kemp (1986). “Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

  Lewis Hine

  Photography, Photographer, Appreciated

  Lewis Wickes Hine, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House (1932). “Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

  Lewis Hine

  Children, Attachment, Cameras

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• Photography is an empathy towards the world.

  Lewis Hine

  Photography, Empathy, World

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• Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

  Lewis Hine

  Liars, Lying, May

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• I have always been more interested in persons than in people.

  Lewis Hine

  People, Persons

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• If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

  Lewis Hine

  Language, Photograph, Ifs

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• While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

  Lewis Hine

  Photography, Liars, Lying

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