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"UP ABOVE THE WORLD SO HIGH"
HINE, LEWIS W. (1874-1940)
Empire State Building [abstraction]. Silver print, 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19x24.2 cm.), with a typewritten caption affixed to verso along with several hand stamps, including a Hine Ewing Galloway stamp. 1931
Empire State Building [abstraction]. Silver print, 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19x24.2 cm.), with a typewritten caption affixed to verso along with several hand stamps, including a Hine Ewing Galloway stamp. 1931
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Notes: an unassailable vintage print bearing a hand stamp that reads: "The price will be doubled if credit line [Hine, from Ewing Galloway, N. Y.] is omitted." The caption on verso reads: "Structural steel workers climbing one derrick to get to another, on to of [sic] the main tower of the 86-story Empire State Building, N. Y."
By 1930, Hine was an accomplished photojournalist who coined the term "photo story" to describe his assemblages of pictures and text. A social documentary photographer best known for his studies of immigrants and child laborers, he developed a typology of Work Portraits in the 1920s, which apparently led to this plumb assignment. Hine's work had been reproduced in countless newspapers and magazines, and the Empire State Building project was the subject of his rare and wonderful book for adolescents, men at work, which he designed. A variant of this image appears in men at work, photographic studies of modern men and machines (New York, 1932), unpaginated.
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