PHOTOGRAPHER

Lewis Hine

1874 - 1940

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Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lewis Hine has received more than 800,243 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Lewis Hine is the 35th most popular photographer (down from 30th in 2019), the 2,586th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,079th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Lewis Hine ranks 35 out of 148. Before him are Berenice Abbott, Jan Saudek, Nan Goldin, Guillermo Kahlo, Claude Cahun, and Edward Weston. After him are Jacques Henri Lartigue, Wilhelm Brasse, Peter Lindbergh, Andreas Gursky, Philippe Halsman, and Astrid Kirchherr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Lewis Hine ranks 72. Before him are Marguerite Long, Avgustyn Voloshyn, Max Dvořák, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Huang Xing, and Paul Wegener. After him are Princess Anna of Montenegro, René-Louis Baire, Serge Koussevitzky, István Bethlen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Lina Cavalieri. Among people deceased in 1940, Lewis Hine ranks 61. Before him are Jan Kubelík, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Édouard Branly, Jesse Livermore, and Nedo Nadi. After him are Marie Krøyer, Willi Münzenberg, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Phan Bội Châu, Luigi Orione, and Jehan Alain.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lewis Hine ranks 2,586 out of 20,380. Before him are Bonnie Bedelia (1948), Kelly Bishop (1944), Wally Schirra (1923), Joan Cusack (1962), Lily Tomlin (1939), and Pat Metheny (1954). After him are Robert Gates (1943), Roscoe Arbuckle (1887), Herbert Blumer (1900), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), Miguel Ferrer (1955), and KRS-One (1965).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Lewis Hine ranks 11. Before him are Richard Avedon (1923), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), Irving Penn (1917), Berenice Abbott (1898), Nan Goldin (1953), and Edward Weston (1886). After him are Carl Van Vechten (1880), Paul Strand (1890), Herb Ritts (1952), William Klein (1928), Ansel Adams (1902), and Imogen Cunningham (1883).

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