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The Progressive Photographer. Volume 1, Number 1, January 1903 (G.M.Bolton, editor, Rockville, Connecticut) Original wrappers. 41pp. plus numerous advertisements.

First issue of this quarterly journal, the "official organ" of the Photographers Association of New England which lasted only until October 1904. Illustrated with "artistic" photographs by American and European photographers, the word "progressive" at first associated with practitioners of "artistic", as opposed to purely commercial, photography. When this magazine appeared, a young New York teacher, Lewis Hine, was just beginning to take his students on excursions to photograph newly-arrived immigrants at Ellis Island, and was just beginning to realize that "documentary photography could be employed as a tool for social change and reform." Going on to devote this photographic work to expose the tragedy of child labor in America, Hine would himself come to be known as the "progressive photographer" for his linking of photography to social conscience. Rare. WorldCat locates only one set of this short-lived periodical, at the Smithsonian.

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