Lewis Hine Photography

1. Lewis Hine Photography

2. What is this H.O.T task? • You will analyze a photograph and • Interpret the impact of visual cues (camera angle, exposure, framing) • Connect the photo to historical events and trends • Evaluate the photographer’s message

3. Who was Lewis Hine? • School teacher • Quit job to become an investigative photographer • Wanted to end child labor • Essential Question: How does Hine convey his message about child labor through his photography? Let’s read his BIOGRAPHY…

4. Subject Angle Exposure (amount of light) Framing Historical Context Photographer’s perspective Message How does it engage the 5 senses? How does the bias effect perspective? Photograph Analysis David Conover- Yank Magazine 1943

5. Subject Angle Exposure Framing Historical Context Photographer’s perspective How does it engage the 5 senses? How does the bias effect perspective? Message

6. What kinds of jobs did children do? • American children worked in large numbers in mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, and as newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddlers.

35. Connecting Past to Present-Child Labor Today

37. Child Labor Today • The International Labor Organization estimates worldwide that there are 246 million exploited children aged between 5 and 17 involved in debt bondage, forced recruitment for armed conflict, prostitution, pornography, the illegal drug trade, the illegal arms trade and other illicit activities around the world.

38. Domestic servitude is an especially large area where we find children being exploited, especially in poorer countries. • In Nepal, around 25,000 girls as young as six years old, are bonded away each year into a life of slavery.

39. What is child labor? • Though definitions vary, child labor means work that is done by children under the age of 15 (14 in some developing countries) which restricts or damages a child's physical, emotional, intellectual, social and/or spiritual growth.Sometimes, work does not harm children. Work may even help them to learn new skills or to develop a sense of responsibility. Most people agree that when we speak about child labor, we mean labor which is intolerable or harmful to children, or which denies them their right to fully develop, to play or to go to school. Child labor includes:• Work performed by children under the age of 15• Long hours of work on a regular or full-time basis• Abusive treatment by the employer• No access, or poor access, to education

41. Thousands of children in West Africa work in the production of cocoa, chocolate’s primary ingredient. The West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire is the leading supplier of cocoa, accounting for more than 40% of global production. Low cocoa prices received by cocoa farmers for their beans drive them to employ children as a means to survive. The US Department of State estimates that more than 109,000 children in Cote d’Ivoire’s cocoa industry work under “the worst forms of child labor,” and that some 10,000 are victims of human trafficking or forced labor.

47. American companies using child labor