Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) was one of the most important social documentary photographers of the twentieth century. A singu- lar figure, Hine coined the dynamic term “photo story” to charac- terize innovative assemblages of pictures and text. He articulated a new role for photography as a fine art form in his letters, and spent multiple years dedicated to projects, creating photographs that depicted his subjects with dignity and compassion. His iconic studies of immigrants, child workers, industrial laborers and con- struction of the Empire State Building remain powerfully relevant. By the late 1930s, the Photo League, an organization whose