Men At Work. Photographic Studies Of Modern Men And Machines

Hine, Lewis W.

Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1932

Quarto. Unpaginated [48]pp. Original green cloth with black lettering and ruling on cover, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with black lettering on spine. Photo-illustrated half-title. Frontispiece photograph. Photo-illustrated title page. A very good copy with sunning on cover, in rare very good dustjacket with slight wear at head of spine and corners. Inside flap clipped but with price printed to bottom. Photographs taken between 154581 920 and 1931. "This is a book of Men at Work; men of courage, skill, daring and imagination. Cities do not build themselves, machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men. We call this the Machine Age. But the more machines we use the more do wee need real men to make and direct them." (Lewis W. Hine) In 1907 Hine became a staff photographer for the Russell Sage Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Margaret Olivia Sage in honor of her deceased husband. The foundation goal was the "improvement of social and living conditions in the United States." One year later he became a photographer and the general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, documenting child labor, during W.W.I. he photographed the relief work of the American Red Cross in Europe, and, after focusing on photographs deemed "work portraits" in the 1920s and early 1930s, he was commissioned to document the construction of the Empire State Building in 1930. Hine's work was often dangerous, be it because of violence threatened by factory workers or police, or simply by the nature of work, e.g. during the documentation of the construction of the Empire State Building. Hine is considered to be one of the so-called "muckrakers," a group of reform-minded journalists, writers and photographers, exposing corruption and wrongdoing in American institutions during the progressive era. Theodore Roosevelt considered the muckrakers to be indispensable, that is, if they knew when to stop raking the muck. Binding with light sunning at foredge, a two inch sunned strip on front cover near spine, diminishing towards center of cover, three quarter inch sunned strip at top of back cover, spine sunned, and lightly sunned at other edges. Light wear. Block lightly age-toned. Very good- to very good+ condition. Seller Inventory # 54565

Bibliographic Details

Title: Men At Work. Photographic Studies Of Modern ...
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Publication Date: 1932
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First edition.