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Lewis Wickes Hine was one of the defining photographers of "social documentary photography". With his images of child labour, the social misery of immigrants in the USA and later his photographs of an emerging, renewing and rebuilding America, he shaped the view of American society and thus the image that people around the world had of the nation slowly coming of age.
After a brief look at the history of photography, the film uses various examples (including Otto Sander, Jacob Riis and Dorothea Lange) to illuminate the decisive phase in the development of "social documentary photography" before analysing in detail "Riveting on the dome a quarter mile up" and "Icarus", two of the key works from the series on the construction of the Empire State Building by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Please note: This content is relevant for the Central Abitur 2023 in the advanced art course in Lower Saxony.
00:00 Intro
00:45 Opening credits
01:02 The history of photography - from camera obscura to 35 mm camera
03:05 Art's "secretary and notepad" - photography seeks its role
05:07 Picturesque realism as a model: the photographic view of society
06:33 August Sander: "Master Confectioner" (1928)
07:37 Dorothea Lange: "Migrant Worker" (1936)
08:30 Lewis Wickes Hine - a photographer changes the USA
13:22 Hine's work on the Empire State Building from 1930 to 1931
15:03 Lewis Wickes Hine: "Riveting on the dome a quartermile up"
18:43 Lewis Wickes Hine: "Icarus atop Empire State Building"
Thanks to Jochen Baecker as the voice of Lewis Wickes Hine!