Today you will be writing about this photograph made by Lewis Hine, a photographer and sociologist who used photography as a tool for social reform. His images of child laborers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries helped abolish child labor. We will read together in class an article on Lewis Hine and the National Child Labor Committee. Then, you will write a 4 paragraph critical analysis of the photograph above. Your analysis must be 4 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember to post your analysis as a comment to the blog post that corresponds to your class. If you post your analysis to the wrong class's post, it will not be graded. If you do not complete your analysis in class, you must finish it for homework before your next class on FRIDAY, 11/10/17. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
11/9/2017 09:39:05 am
In this image by Lewis Hine, we see a child who has been working as a “Driver” and is obviously not leading a very great life. He is very dirty, using some kind of trash as a hat, and is covered in soot and dirt. His expression seems very hopeless and there is a whip hung around his neck. It was most likely shot in daylight, with exclusively natural light. The photo is in black and white, but if it were in color, I would see it as having a warm palette of green and brown, along with some black. 11/9/2017 09:40:36 am
This image is of a young child laborer who appears very dirty working as a mine driver in the mining industry. The image is only using black and white in order to give the image a more sad feeling. The lighting in the image isn’t very visible because of the colors, but it appears to be pretty well lit. The objects in the image are a young mine driver, a hat, ming rails or tracks, a rope around the boy’s neck, overalls, buttons, a shirt, and trees in the background. In this image, the boy is very dirty and weary looking and seems to be standing next to rails in a mining area, having paused from working momentarily.
Melody Umsted
11/9/2017 09:41:42 am
This picture is of a young boy who is a child laborer. The boy is wearing a worn out long sleeve shirt with old overalls. He is wearing a hat that has some weird thing sticking out of it; it looks like a tea pot. Around the boy's neck, there is a whip because he was a driver at a mine. He is standing in front of a small train track and trees. Everything on the boy, including himself, is extremely dirty, and the photo is black and white, which enhances the dirt. He is looking right into the camera.
Andi Feik
11/9/2017 09:42:12 am
This image is by Lewis Hine called “Young Driver In Mine”. It is of a young boy that works in a mine. This image was shot in black and white. It is outside with trees behind him. This is a portrait of this boy so he is the only thing in this image. The image has a short depth of field.
Chase Blackwell
11/9/2017 09:43:54 am
The photo shows a young boy who was working in a mine in a driver boy. The photo is black and white, due to Hine shooting the image on a wet plate camera. The boy, despite standing in the sun, has a darker appearance due to the soot covering his skin and caking his face. The boy has a bull whip around his neck, and a strange hat on that appears to be a lamp. The boy is staring sadly into the camera as his photo is taken, due to the rough nature of his life.
Catherine Clausewitz
11/9/2017 09:45:23 am
This is a photo of a boy who looks to be around 11 or 12. The photo is in black and white as well. The boy is standing there and from the base of this neck up and as well as his whole face is covered in what looks to be like dirt or soot. He has very short hair from what you can see of it because he is wearing a sort of hat. He is wearing a long sleeve shirt that buttons up and almost looks like a dress shirt and is wearing overalls as well He has a whip hanging around his neck also. He has a hat on and it has some sort of object on it that I don’t know what it is. The object on the hat looks to be very dirty and used. He also has larger ears and nose and it almost looks like his bottom lip is pursed out.
Kaitlyn Evans
11/9/2017 09:47:33 am
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Adriana Vazquez
11/9/2017 09:49:04 am
This picture is of a young kid who works as a driver. He is standing on the trails of the train, he is wearing a long sleeve shirt and old overalls. There is a rope around his neck and his face is very dirty because he has worked all day. There are some trees as a background and what looks like a part of a wall. The image is all black and white, I Think they're using this color to show the sadness and the suffering of the children like him, that are working. The kid is wearing a hat with what looks like its wood and a bottle can. 11/9/2017 09:52:19 am
This image is of a boy that has dirt all over his face. He appears to be in front of some train tracks. The picture is in black and white for an artistic approach. The lighting is good, not too dark but not too over exposed. There are some shadows in the background. There is boy with dirty clothes and a dirty hat. He appears to have a rope around his neck. There are also some train tracks right behind him and some trees. The boy is just looking at the man that is about to take a picture of him. He appears to have just exited working in the mines.
Julieta Vazquez Maritnez
11/9/2017 10:07:04 am
This is a portrait of a young working boy by Lewis Hine. Because of the time, the image is in black and white. It looks like the Photograph was taken sometime in the afternoon when the subject was done with his long shift, it looks like this time of the day because it is not bright enough for it to be around noon, and it is not dark enough to be later than six in the afternoon. The boy, being the subject, is standing in the center with a sad, tired, and lost expression. He is wearing overalls with a kind of rope or maybe a tool for his job, he is also wearing a hat that has some kind of metal on top of it. 11/9/2017 10:10:30 am
The picture is of a small boy with overalls and a hat with a weird object on it. The object could be used as a light source because the tip of the object looks burnt. The boy has dirt all over his face has a whip hung around his shoulders, behind the boy are train tracks that were probably used for minecarts. The boy looks tired and lifeless, the boy has a big smudge on his face, possibly dirt. The boy works at a coal mine and possibly uses the whip he to force other workers to work. The rule of thirds in not being used and the image was taken at a normal view. Since the photo is a portrait it uses a shallow depth of view to focus on the boy and not the background. The boy is the focal point and the leading lines are the tracks in the background and they point toward the boy. The image is balanced and is not tilted. The subject does not completely fill the frame because there is still extra space in the background. The image leaves out the rest of the train track, the boy’s hands, the boy’s legs, and the whip. There is no negative space in the image, the theme of the image is about child labour in the industrial revolution. The photographer made a series of images like this one to show how child labour was affecting kids in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The photographer took pictures of kids in coal mines, factories, and other jobs to showcase that the kids could live their childhoods and get an education instead of working. The photographer was successful in his efforts and helped pass laws to stop child labour. This image was of a child who worked as a driver in a mine. I like the photo because the focus was pleasing to look at and also because of the story behind the image. I would hang this image on my wall because I could explain the backstory of the image to my guests. The photo was successful because the photographer was successful in his efforts to stop child labour. Sadly the photographer, Lewis Hine, died in poverty but his efforts will be remembered by photographers and historians. Comments are closed.
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