Arts in the Americas

Slidelist 26

 

Social Photography in the USA

Late 19th century

Jacob Riis, Flashlight Photo of peddler in cellar, 1890

 

20th century

Lewis W. Hine, Italian Family Seeking Lost Baggage; Ellis Island, 1905

 
Lewis W. Hine, Carolina Cotton Mill, 1908

 

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936

 

 

Terms:

Photographic referent

Photojournalism

Riis, How The Other Half Lives, 1890

Charities and Commons

National Child Labor Committee; Child Labor Laws, 1916

New Deal, Farm Securities Administration (FSA)

Life Magazine (f.1936)