Image: Getty Villa, Los Angeles
How was photography used in the fight against child labor in the United States? That is the question posed by a Getty Museum post published September 7, 2026, under the title ‘How Lewis Hine Used Photography to Expose Child Labor.’
The brief educational spotlight turns to photographer Lewis Hine and his depictions of children at work in early-20th-century America. The post names factories, mines and streets as the settings shown in his work, tracing a picture of child labor across industrial workplaces and urban thoroughfares.
Its title makes exposure the immediate focus: Hine’s photographs are presented through the question of how the medium was used in the fight against child labor. Readers are invited to learn more about the photographer whose work depicted children in those settings.
