Image: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Writer Glenn Kurtz will explore the identities and personal stories of the workers pictured in Lewis Hine’s photographs of the Empire State Building in a talk titled ‘Men at Work’ on 25 September 2026.
The programme focuses on the people represented in Hine’s widely recognised images of the skyscraper’s construction. According to the event description, Kurtz has researched the workers’ real identities and stories, shifting attention from the building and the photographs’ iconic status to the individuals depicted within them.
Hine’s Empire State Building photographs are presented in the listing as a significant body of documentary photography. The talk will consider how biographical information can change the way such images are understood, bringing greater definition to workers who might otherwise remain anonymous within a record of one of New York’s most recognisable architectural projects.
Kurtz is identified in the listing as the writer leading the event. The description does not provide further biographical information about him, nor does it indicate whether the talk will include a display of Hine’s photographs, projected material or other objects. Its stated focus is the investigation of the people captured in the images and the stories connected to them.
The event is included in programme material circulated by Dulwich Picture Gallery, the London museum. The supplied listing gives the date as 25 September 2026 but does not specify a start time, venue room or access arrangements. It is presented as a single-date talk rather than an exhibition, with no separate exhibition run or additional venue listed.
