Priceless Children: Child Labor and the Pictorialist Ideal

by Tom Beck, George Dimock, Verna Posever Curtis

Priceless Children includes vintage photographs of working class and middle-class children at the turn of the 19th century. Lewis Hine's pioneering documentation of immigration and child labour are compared and contrasted with the pictorialist work by six of his contemporaries: F. Holland Day, Gertrude Kusebier, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and Clarence White. Hine's working-class children, portrayed for reform-minded audiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029598192X
• ISBN13: 9780295981925
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.9" x 11.9"