Lewis W.Hines - The Empire State Building

 

The book The Empire State buildings by Lewis W.Hines show a collections of black and white images of the Empire State building. Lewis W. Hine documented the progress of the empire state buildings between 1930-1931. During this period Hines took more than 1000 images of the construction of the building. Hines produced a number of shots from portraits of the workers to landscape shots of the building.

 

The book shows some of Lewis W.hines best pictures of the Empier State bilding. The book shows 64 images of the building being created. pages 7-23 explains how Hines took some of the pictures in the book and explains his insperations for the project.

 

 

 

One of the first pictures in the book shows a landscape image of the Empire State building after it was competed. The Empire State building towers over the rest of the buildings in the picture and is clearly the largest building in the sky line.

Overall this book is an excilent example of documentery photography. Lewis W.Hines managed to get s ranges of shots. I also like the way he focused on the workers more then the building its self.