Mary Panzer Knihy

LEWIS HINE (1874-1940) took up photo-graphy 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.

A pioneer of the photographic medium and one of the Civil War's greatest chroniclers records its monumental personalities, its decisive battles, and its unmatched price in dead and injured and in devastated land.