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"'Radical Camera: New York's Photo League 1936-1951," at the Jewish Museum, is an overdue history of an organization that had an impact on American art and journalism out of all proportion to its abbreviated life.
One year before the Museum of Modern Art exhibited a serious interest in photographs, and decades before the founding of the International Center of Photography, the rowdy amateurs of the Photo League were arguing how the medium could best validate itself as an artistic tool and also reflect the turmoil of the day. Fast, handheld cameras offered new ways of picturemaking, and many photographers wanted to share work and know-how with their peers.
The Photo League became the place to meet, take classes, debate, exhibit, and use a low-cost darkroom. A short list of those associated with the group at various times includes Berenice Abbott, Rudy Burckhardt, Sid Grossman, Lewis Hine, Helen Levitt, Jerome Liebling, Lisette Model, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Louis Stettner, Paul Strand, Weegee and Dan Weiner. All of them are represented in this show of nearly 150 vintage black-and-white prints."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...4702837921644.html?mod=WSJ_hps_editor*****s_2
"'Radical Camera: New York's Photo League 1936-1951," at the Jewish Museum, is an overdue history of an organization that had an impact on American art and journalism out of all proportion to its abbreviated life.
One year before the Museum of Modern Art exhibited a serious interest in photographs, and decades before the founding of the International Center of Photography, the rowdy amateurs of the Photo League were arguing how the medium could best validate itself as an artistic tool and also reflect the turmoil of the day. Fast, handheld cameras offered new ways of picturemaking, and many photographers wanted to share work and know-how with their peers.
The Photo League became the place to meet, take classes, debate, exhibit, and use a low-cost darkroom. A short list of those associated with the group at various times includes Berenice Abbott, Rudy Burckhardt, Sid Grossman, Lewis Hine, Helen Levitt, Jerome Liebling, Lisette Model, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Louis Stettner, Paul Strand, Weegee and Dan Weiner. All of them are represented in this show of nearly 150 vintage black-and-white prints."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...4702837921644.html?mod=WSJ_hps_editor*****s_2
