Lewis Hine

Young Miner

1908

(Mary Creed, 14, Selling Bakery Goods in Store of Mrs. Breslin, 817 Harrison Avenue) Gelatin silver print Inscribed with artist's name and title in pencil, verso Also stamped, "Repr...

Migrant Strawberry Picker in Tent Near Hammond, Louisiana April 1939 Inscribed with artist’s name and title in pencil, verso Also stamped, “Reproduced from the collection of the Li...

Miners - The Old Days  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.  It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and polit...

Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas, free shipping and a 14 day return policy. Lora Webb Nichols 15 x 12 inch gelatin silver print Image Size: 14 x 8.5 inches frame size: 22.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches Edition of 15 Lora Webb Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us. At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment, but when the town experienced a copper mining boom Nichols expanded her scope to become a photographer for hire shooting portraits and industrial photographs. When the boom collapsed, Nichols took the risk of opening her own business in Encampment - The Rocky Mountain Studio - which opened in 1925. The studio ran for ten years, accumulating 24,000 negatives that illustrate the lives and environment of the people living in and around the town while creating a distinctive and surprising body of work. If one was to attempt an analogy – Nichols’ pictures fit somewhere between Lartigue and Lange - joyful and generous while objectively intimate. In particular what seems to distinguish Nichols’ work is the way she sees the world from a female perspective. As Vince Aletti...