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Labour of Love
Just in time for Labor Day, the hefty volume features commentary by art critic Ferdinand Protzman and spans more than a century of toil. It focuses on the workers, from fishermen and stock market gurus, to a blacksmith in Illinois and a baker in Egypt. Many readers will recognize the more famous images, including the young oyster shuckers and a girl working in a cotton mill by Lewis Wickes Hine, whose photographs of young laborers in the United States helped put an end to child labor. The photos show how far we’ve come and how much we remain the same. In this mesmerising book, even the hell it portrays can be beautiful. — WP/NYT
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little bit heaven, a little bit hell. That sums up the world of work. And it
sums up National Geographic’s "Work: The World in Photographs," a
panoramic journey celebrating how we make a living.