Art: Pictures at Two Exhibitions

"There were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to show the things that had to be corrected. I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated." Thus, after decades of lugging his camera into the crannies of American misery and hope—ghetto Jews and child pieceworkers in the verminous cellars of New York, riggers on the high steel, the corridors of Ellis Island and the mine tunnels of Pennsylvania—Lewis Hine, once a schoolteacher but also one of America's great reformist photographers, gave his modest definition of "concerned" photography. All arts,...