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Hansel Mieth

Hansel Mieth (1909 - 1998) was active/lived in California, New York / Germany.  Hansel Mieth is known for Magazine photography, social injustice, Depression Era themes.

Hansel Mieth left her native Germany with her future husband, Otto Hagel, at the age of fifteen. She traveled through Eastern Europe, then arrived in the United States in 1930, in the midst the Depression. She and Hagel found migrant agricultural work and photographed their experiences in a series eventually published as "The Great Hunger" in LIFE magazine in 1934.

In the mid-1930s, besides working as a seamstress for the Works Progress Administration in San Francisco, Mieth photographed several of the city's ethnic neighborhoods, as well as waterfront and freight yard workers, for the West Coast Youth project. The appearance of her photographs in LIFE and Time led to her employment in 1937 as a staff photographer for LIFE's New York office. Although she produced many important photo essays, including those on single motherhood, yellow fever, and animal experimentation, among other topics, she disliked the harried pace of photojournalism in New York.   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2334 characters.]  Artist bio

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