Lewis Hine: Retrospective

Venue details

FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE
Instituto de Cultura
Paseo de Recoletos no 23
28004 Madrid
www.exposicionesmapfrearte.com

Event details

The Fundacion Mapfre is presenting a retrospective of famous American photographer Lewis Wickes Hine in the Recoletos Hall in Madrid. Hines can be seen as a key figure in the history of social photography, someone who used photography as a tool to expose the misery and social injustice evident in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. He worked for the National Child labour Committee, the Work Progress Administration and the Red Cross, illustrating the hardships of people with his gripping portraits. He captured immigrants freshly arriving at Ellis Island in hope for a better life, and photographed the risky conditions under which workers constructed the Empire State Building. Hines photographs were conductive to the change in child labor laws in the United States. The exhibition is an extensive overview of Hine’s work, including 170 prints and previously unreleased documents illustrating how his photographs had an effect at the time.

Lewis Hine has been featured before by GUP here.