Lewis Hine quotes
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“There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.”
-- Lewis HineSource : Lewis Wickes Hine, John R. Kemp (1986). “Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.”
-- Lewis HineSource : Lewis Wickes Hine, Daile Kaplan (1992). “Photo story: selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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“Photography is an empathy towards the world.”
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“Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.”
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“I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.”
-- Lewis HineSource : Lewis Wickes Hine, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House (1932). “Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.”
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“Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph”
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“In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.”
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“Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph”
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“If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.”
-- Lewis Hine
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