Lewis Hine

Madrid

The Fundación Mapfre currently presents a retrospective of the work of the American photographer Lewis Hine in its Recoletos site in central Madrid.

Being well-known as one of the key figures for the aesthetic of social documentary photography, the exhibition compromises a selection of 170 images, most of them vintage prints, that offer a complete overview of Hine’s career as a photographer while also locating him in the artistic, political and cultural context of his time.

It opens with his earliest photographs of immigrants disembarking on Ellis Island (1904–1909, 1926) and child workers (1903–1913) and encompasses his work in Europe for the American Red Cross at the end of World War I (1918–19) and his series on the construction of the Empire State Building in New York (1930–1931). In addition, the exhibition includes documents and contemporary publications, some never previously exhibited, which have recently been acquired by the George Eastman House. Hine used these publications to promote social causes such as better housing and the closure of illegal sweatshops.

Fundación Mapfre

February 11th – April 29th, 2012
Paseo de Recoletos, 23
28004 Madrid
Spain

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