^ +1. There was a fantastic exhibit of Lewis Hine's work at the ICP in NYC that ended earlier this month. He was a very talented photographer with a strong social conscience and some of his work is just truly incredible. As well as child labor it includes photos from Europe, immigrants at Ellis Island, tenement life, the construction of the Empire State Building, and the New Deal.
There's a beautifully printed catalog of the ICP exhibit: Lewis Hine, Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., New York, 2012. ISBN 978-1-935202-76-9.
Hine was difficult to deal with and although he was one of the first to document the lives of the poor and oppressed, AFAIK he never worked for the Farm Security Administration which funded people like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks. He died in poverty in 1940.
Jan, thank you so much for posting this link.
