Legislative bodies in 16 states, Florida Among them, children’s work laws were circulated. In some cases, major steps have already been taken Reducing restrictions To work by children at the age of fourteen. Erasing, almost exclusively promoted by Republicans, target Legal ban Against the exploitation of children who was in his place nearly a century ago.
Here is a surprise: The radical transformations in photography are one of the basic reasons that traction threatened.
In the first decade of the twentieth century, sociologist Lewis and. When published, HINE pictures of America appeared, and laws to protect children appeared.
The modern artistic type – documentary photography – was fully integrated on the increasing social effort to form abusive practice of forcing children to praise in business fuse and farms in the aftermath of the sect. Symbolic is the luminous image of a small girl – called the roundabout – in North Carolina, and Whittle Couton MFG. The child who wears a tributary has apparently ended the armed gaps, as its function was the patrol of the overlapping lines on the overlapping lines, theatrical, and a degree of right windows where there was a set of lighting lighting. She stopped her work to face the camera, clearly in the instructions of the photographer.
Louis W. Hin, “Cotton Mill Failure, North Carolina”, 1908; Silver printing.
(C. Paul Getty Museum)
Her right hand, a spiral ball, is located on the infernal system, while its left hand is open to the window. It is a hostage of events, and it is innocent besieged between families and freedom.
The dizziness in the textile factory was not particularly dangerous, although finger loss was definitely dangerous. However, as the historian of Stanford Alexander Nimerov did sharply NoteThe recorded damage was caused in the image of the exact hein on the spirit of the little girl as in her body. A halo of the cut is evoked. A frequent, boring and mechanical routine is its present and future, and extends indefinitely. When her concentrated outlook meets you, the appearance of a wrapped resignation tightens her soft face, and it is painful to see it.
You can go foot. But for her, this is.
The shift in photography today is not that artists have abandoned a productive interest in the state of the world, including these types of harsh working conditions, which are explored by social documentary images. They did not. Latoya Ruby Frazier is an impressive example.
“The Last Cruze”, moving exhibition At the American Museum in California, California in 2021, the life of the union workers in the General Motors factory in Lardstown, Ohio – workers explained and disrupted when the factory was closed two years ago. Frazier’s installation of 67 black and white images and one colorful video clips is an unexpected story about human antiquities, and I did it in great ways.
But it is also fair to say that its emotional composition was unable – he could not – generate the same type of anger that Hin’s pictures did. In 1908, when he began publishing pictures of young children working in dark conditions in factories and farms, the context in which the pictures appeared completely different from the visual environment today.
Louis W. Hin, “Oster Shukars, Peloxi, Miss,” around 1911; Silver printing.
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Simply put, photographs were still rare, relatively, but they were on their way to replacing wooden illustrations in newspapers and periodicals to become the dominant form of the optical media. The camera’s photos were annoying. They were directly linked to the world in front of the lens, and they had the ability to seize the eyes of the eyes, and withdraw the minds with them.
Today, living in a saturated media scene, there is no escape from them. They rarely disrupt. Wake up in the morning, check your phone, and degrees – perhaps even hundreds – from the pictures flashing before breakfast. In such a medium, Hin’s disturbing images will disappear in 1908 easily, and it may take a moment but soon evaporate in the optical MIASMA that overwhelms the area daily.
Now, with the emergence of artificial intelligence, the assumption of a direct contact with reality. Doubts arise about photographic originality.
Hin, in the early thirties, was part of an increasingly gradual movement that requested social and political reform on a large scale after the collapse of post -civil war and the amazing explosion. John Spargo, the self -educated British stones that migrated to New York in 1901, became an unlikely political view of the movement. His book “The Bitter Cry of the Children” has condemned the practices of children’s work hard, on the pretext that boycotting the school with work caused a lifelong.
“Three young coal miners, with mules; Pennsylvania, 1908; Silver printing.
(C. Paul Getty Museum)
The novelists agreed with a difference like Jack London and HG Wells, and they said in short stories and magazine articles. A special committee for non -profit national workers was formed to pressure government and federal officials, while attempting public education. NCLC Hine rented.
His research experience was led by a meeting scientist to the pioneering photos of Jacob Reese, a police reporter in New York Tribune. Reese revealed the circumstances of the slums on the lower eastern side in pictures of analgesic that would form the basis for his famous book, “How does the other half live.” Soon, he took a hay, perceived images as a visual guide, the camera as well.
His photo documents for children’s employment began to appear in the weekly magazines, such as charities and public associations, and in NCLC publications widely distributed with dry titles if it was illustrative such as “child labor in Virginia” and “agricultural business and schools in Kentucky”. Publications may have limited trading, but their influential pictures leaked in the popular press.
For readers who did not spend their days walking on the factory floor or supervising the sorting of coal pieces that slip down, a clear picture will emerge. Watching a picture of a naive child climbs barefoot into huge or shaded machines under the large tobacco leaves that are sprayed with pesticides can stick easily to the mind.
Louis W. Hin, “10 -year -old, Tobaco Gilsrusif Farm, 1917; Gelatin Silver Print.
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Hain image in 1917 of a 10 -year -old boy working on the tobacco farm in Connecticut, Contecticut, south of Hartford, appears on his knees in a irrigation trench among the rows of what is most likely tobacco used in the cigar cover. (More tender tobacco, which was torn to the filling, was cultivated in the south, not New England. The first side factory will be chosen, then the other,-and for the child it will go, grown by the plant in the high temperature of the summer in the long rows that cover an acre of agricultural land.
Soon, the second layer of the leaves will mature and repeat the process. Then the third layer was ready, and it was chosen while accessing it, and so on, the factory was fully harvested.
Disting boredom in the work is stifling. My first summer job was as a child in search of post -school pocket money, the choice of cigarette tobacco on the Contecticut farm north of Hartford. I was 14 years old. It lasted less than a week. A small boy from Hin, who looks at the camera with the camera with dark eyes roaming under curly forehead, may not have such an editorial option.
Child labor laws today are pushed for their motivation by conservative groups such as the Government Accountability Foundation in Naples, Florida, a well -funded care organization. (Ingregation, according to his 2023 tax report, FGA CEO, a non -profit institution that seeks to reduce the restrictions of children’s work, received more than $ 498,000 in salary and other compensation.) In that case dependent on tourism, Orlando Weekly She stated that the office of the governor of the state, Ron Desantis, wrote a draft law, saying that the changes made by the legislative body last year to alleviate the restrictions of work for minors “did not go sufficiently.” If passed, teenagers who reach 14 years can work during the night hours on school nights or long transformations without breaking a meal.
the Miami Herald She stated that, in defense of his plan, the ruler on the border of the Trump administration explained that the younger workforce can be part of the solution to replace “cheap dirt” workers illegally. He added that the draft law “will allow families to determine what is in the interest of their child.”
Louis W. Hin, “Bentpery Bantursor, New Jersey”, 1913; Silver printing.
(C. Paul Getty Museum)
Desantis asked, “Why do we say that we need to import foreigners, and even import them illegally, when you know, teenagers used to work in these resorts; university students should be able to do these things.”
University students, of course, are adults, not children, their average age between 18 and 25 American Child Welfare Association You notice that in 2022, parents committed 71 % of the abuse of children in Florida, and therefore the call to make family decisions as an alternative to the laws that regulate child labor fraught with risk.
The historical example of Luis Hin’s exceptional documentary images – and its beneficial impact on children’s lives – would help shed light on the current controversial topic. His work was found in many public groups. The Congress Library in Washington, DC, and the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, are two publications and negatives. Getty Museum in Los Angeles has more than 100.
But there is an obstacle: However, many art museums express their commitment to social importance, their programs are the opposite of intelligence. It takes years to produce and scheduling an exhibition. The battle of children’s work may end today.
If there is a vital reason for a virtual presentation on a technical museum site and promoting it strongly, then this is the case. During the first Trump administration, the popular digital magazine Panda bored He did so completely, as he installed a large -scale selection of children’s work images that stand out in Hin. The demand for cheap labor never goes away, but sometimes it rises. We are there again.
Louis W. Hin, “NewsBoy, Mobile, Alabama”, 1914; Silver printing.
(C. Paul Getty Museum)
