In Photos: Celebrating the Work of Lewis Hine

Slavic immigrant at Ellis Island, 1907

Hine’s Ellis Island images were shot with a Graflex camera. He often had to overcome language barriers in the process of locating his subjects, finding an isolated place to shoot them, and setting the pose

Hot day on East Side, New York, circa 1908

The Hine works being auctioned at Swann Galleries come from the personal collection of Isador Sy Seidman, a friend of Hine’s and a lifelong collector of New York City-centric photographs