Research Point - socially committed B&W photographers

Do you own research into the work of the socially committed B&W photographers discussed so far.

UK:
1. Exit photography group
The prime project of the group was the previously analysed 'Survival Programmes: In Britain’s Inner Cities' (1982). Nicholas Battye, Paul Trevor and Chris Steele-Perkins focused their interests on such social issues like poverty, unemployment and racism between 1974 and 1979 in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Glasgow and Belfast.
The group was created in 1973 and the same year saw them published 'Down Wapping'. All photographers in the group were interested in social issues in UK, to the extent that the final four photographers decided to attempt the 'Survival Programmes...' with no financial backing, feeling that living on the edge of the poverty would actually provide the most honest account on the social issues they were interested in.

2. Chris Killip
Chris Killip's work focuses on the working class. His images are not only meant to bring attention to the poverty affected areas and the struggling communities, but also to preserve the bit of the old, i.e. his fantastic project 'Skinningrove' (an article and a short movie on this here). He has therefore, except the first years in his carrier working as an assistant to the advertising photographer Adrian Flowers, spent his life on photographing the social issues he felt strong about.

3. Nick Danzinger
His work is mostly based on people living in difficult conditions, often showcasing the most deprived and disadvantaged areas of the world. With 'Danziger’s Britain' he comments on social and political state of Britain, in 'Danziger’s Travels' and 'Danziger’s Adventures' he focuses on places and people in distress around the world.

4. Bill Brandt
Lastly, the very different UK photographer from the artists described above. Brandt was a fantastic surrealist artist (whose work I personally adore), having worked as an assistant for Man Ray in 1920s Paris, but he also created a great body of journalist work in his lifetime. Having started his street photography in Paris, based on his fascination with the work of Eugène Atget, it is his english documents produced later in life that are of a real importance. The English at Home produced in 1936 focuses on the extreme social contrasts prior to the Second World War, 'A Night in London' (1938) "tells the story of a London night, moving between different social classes [http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/b/bill-brandt-biography/], 'North' focuses on the deteriorating conditions of the north east following the Depression and the closure of ship-building yards.

US:
1. Jacob Riss
Riss was a very dedicated social reformer and social documentary photographer. 'How the Other Half Lives' published in 1890 is considered one of the best works in American photojournalism, the book promoted the positive changes to the social climate on the turn of the century. Jacob Riss was heavily engaged with the social reform all throughout his life, spending twelve years as a police reporter on Manhattan's Lower East Side as well as writing and lecturing on the subject of poverty in the New York.

2. Lewis Hine
One of the most successful photographers in the American history, his photos exposed the child labour scandal and greatly contributed towards the reform movement. He was also interested in the subject of immigration, attempting to portray the dignity of the newcomers. After completing his graduate sociology study he was asked to provide pictures for the Pittsburgh Survey, a six-volume sociological study of conditions in the urban industrial city. Unlike Riss, who portrayed his subjects as helpless victims, Hine wanted to present them with dignity and pride. He carried his child labour focused projects throughout Europe until the 1920. He eventually moved onto capturing more uplifting subjects, concentration on portraying and honouring the American workers, with the most known example documenting the construction of the Empire State Building.