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Authors, works and languages of the image
Lewis Wickes Hine
Italian Mother and Child, Ellis Island, 1905 c.
"Italian Mother and Child, Ellis Island", 1905 c. © Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Introduction
"Italian Mother and Child, Ellis Island" is one of the most emblematic and powerful images from the early phase of Lewis Wickes Hine's career, captured around 1905. This work stands as a fundamental cornerstone of the burgeoning genre of social documentary photography, a field that Hine radically helped to define.
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