Why Did Lewis Hine Use Photojournalism

Hine’s was a photojournalistic artist. He used photojournalism to tell his stories. Photojournalism is the art or practice of communication news through newspapers, magazines, and more. He used photojournalism while trying to get the message that child labor was negative across. Hine’s amazing work that was produced by his talent was the face of the National Child Labor Committee and what they stood for as a community. Lewis Hine’s work was able to get the NAtional Child Labor Committee’s point across. The NAtional CHild Labor Committee was struggling to get attention brought to the subject of child labor. Both him and the National Child Labor Committee knew that they needed to incorporate a new way to fight for change. The National Child LAbor Committee did more then just0 have photographs taken of children. After World War II, the National Child Labor Committee widened its vision of involvement by putting emphasis on how important education is for children. During the 1950’s and …show more content…
The bill was defeated because the justices of Supreme court didn’t believe in it and it convinced many of the opponents of child labor that in order to solve child labor there was going to have to be cooperation between the states (Sixty fourth congress of the US). The National Child Labor Committee called for the establishment of a federal children’s bureau that would be able to investigate and report on the circumstances of all American children. Finally, by 1912 the National Child Labor Committee was able to pass an act that made it able to put a United States Children’s Bureau in the Department of Commerce and Labor. Over the next 30 years, the National Child Labor Committee worked tightly with the Children's Bureau in order to make reforms to child labors both at the state and national