Top 10 Quotes by Lewis Hine

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

Photography, Ignorance, Light

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

Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

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

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

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

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