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Hine, already well established as a chronicler of social conditions of his day, produced more than 700 photographs for this project, the last major work of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy emphasizing the inherent tension between machinery and workers, Hine imbued these compelling images with his characteristic rigor and aesthetic appeal. These photographs, and their implied message, are particularly relevant today given high unemployment rates and radical shifts in the role of the worker in the rapidly changing world economy. Included in this book is an essay by the eminent photographic historian Judith Mara Gutman, in which she discusses the project and the photographs in the context of the economic conditions of the time and the artistic and technological innovations of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLewis Hine\u003c\/b\u003e (1874–1940) was trained as a sociologist and educator in Chicago and New York. 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As noted on the jacket of the first edition, Evans, “photographing in New England or Louisiana, watching a Cuban political funeral or a Mississippi flood, working cautiously so as to disturb nothing in the normal atmosphere of the average place, can be considered a kind of disembodied, burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers.” This seventy-fifth anniversary edition of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e, made with new reproductions, recreates the original 1938 edition as closely as possible to make the landmark publication available for a new generation. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e has fallen out of print for long periods of time since it was first published, and even subsequent editions--two of which altered the design and typography of the book in small but significant ways--are often available only at libraries and rare bookstores. 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