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As photography developed in tandem with?the Industrial Revolution, the camera became a tool to document the?cogs?of?machinery and?the resulting changes in landscapes, the economy and the lives of workers. Photographers were able to expose the realities of labor and to even denounce certain dangerous practices. art2art offers several exhibitions focused on industrialization, urbanization, immigration, economic depression and workers. Our Lewis Hine show creates a visual landscape of factories and production lines, documenting steelworkers as well?as underage labor. We offer?Dorothea Lange's portraits?capturing?those desperate to find work during the Great Depression. Our Bill Owens exhibition juxtaposes work with leisure, adding?insights from his subjects. On the other side of the Atlantic,?Bill Brandt photographed industrial workers and their families in 1930s Northern England. We also feature workers and industry around the world with our?East Meets West show and?Mark Chester's vision of?1980s Shanghai.

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In 1907 Lewis Hine joined the Pittsburgh Survey, a sociologic study that documented the lives of steelworkers. Hine’s focus on the dignity of the American worker would last a quarter century and culminate in his magnificent photographs of the construction of the Empire State Building in 1931 and in the classic book Men at Work. In 1908 Hine began working for the National Child Labor Committee, sneaking his camera into cotton mills, canning companies and glassworks to document the exploitation of children, often at great personal risk. Hine’s heart-rending images of underage workers were the?principal?tool used by the NCLC to lobby state-by-state for child labor laws, until Congress finally outlawed?the practice in 1938.

This comprehensive?exhibit includes Dorothea Lange's?seminal portraits from the Great Depression. She captures migrant farm workers living in labor camps in California, as well as those fleeing from the Dust Bowl?in search of a better life. Her immortal photographs?seared the?faces of this devastating era into America’s consciousness.

This exhibition by photographer Mark Chester captures life in Shanghai after a sister-city agreement with San Francisco was signed in the 1980s. The images explore a cross-section of Shanghai life — the arts, education, sports, leisure, medicine, street life, portraiture and industry.

British photographer Bill Brandt captured the stark industrial landscape and the lives of the working class people in Northern England in the 1930s. His images of coal miners and their families remain one of the finest examples of social documentary photography.?

This exhibition offers spectacular images of Meiji-era Japan, including portraits of workers, from jinrikisha (‘rickshaw’) drivers to rice farmers, flower peddlers to child acrobats.

The?photographs in?Bill Owens: Working/Leisure?capture?Americans hard at work and equally hard at play. The photographs of people on the job are narrated in the subjects’ own?words. Their quotes?are at times?humorous or insightful and other times?heartbreaking.

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