Discusses the history, design, and construction of New York City's Empire State Building.

Product Description: Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took up photography to call attention to social injustice and to campaign for change. This respect for the exploited and oppressed individual established him as an embodiment of American values. His images celebrated the dignity of working people in the modern world and gave a voice to the ordinary men, women and children who did not, or could not, speak for themselves...read more

Product Description: Lewis W. Hine's famous photographs document the construction of the Empire State Building, the world's tallest building at that time. In the brilliant black-and-white photographs collected in this volume, Hine pays tribute to the human spirit by dramatically contrasting the workers with the mammoth scale of the structure...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Lewis W. Hine's famous photographs, documenting the construction of what was then the world's tallest building, pay tribute to human vision, endeavor, and courage. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A compassionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcend the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality...read more

Gathers Hine's photographs showing the devastation of World War I in France, Italy, Greece, and Serbia, and explains how he developed the photo essay

A leading force in the field of social-documentary photography presents his views of women in industry and offers a tribute to the American worker

Product Description: Construction workers, railroad men, factory workers, miners, Empire State Building construction. 69 photos in all.