Mother Jones and Lewis Hine
Local Hero
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.” Lewis Hine
Why doesn’t Oshkosh, WI
honor Lewis Hine
its homegrown genius
photographer extraordinaire
his memorable images
of early 1900’s
Ellis Island immigrants,
World War I in Europe,
child labor abuses
(changing the world)
manual labor’s dignity
the Empire State Building
Stories he could not tell
but captured
Hine named them
photo stories
Steve Heins