Artists in 'the Photo League', active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life. Their focus centred on New York City and its vibrant streets - a newsboy at work, a brass band on a bustling corner, a crowded beach at Coney Island. Though beautiful, the images harbour strong social commentary on issues of class, child labour, and opportunity. "The Radical Camera" explores the fascinating blend of aesthetics and social activism at the heart of the Photo League, tracing the group's left-leaning roots and idealism to the worker-photography movement in Europe. Influenced by mentors Lewis Hine, Berenice Abbott, and Paul Strand, artists in 'The Photo League' worked within a unique complex comprising a school, a darkroom, a gallery, and a salon, in which photography was discussed as both a means for social change and an art form. The influence of 'the Photo League' artists on modern photography was enormous, ushering in the New York School. Presenting 150 works of the members of 'the Photo League' alongside complementary essays that offer new interpretations of the League's work, ideas, and pedagogy, this beautifully illustrated book features artists including Margaret Bourke-White, Sid Grossman, Morris Engel, Lisette Model, Ruth Orkin, Walter Rosenblum, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, and Weegee, among many others.
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Mason Klein is curator at The Jewish Museum, New York. He is the author of Modigliani: Beyond the Myth and Alias Man Ray. Catherine Evans is the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art.
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At last the Photo League gets a comprehensive study that will be the standard work about a group of creative photographers who captured the vibrancy of New York from 1936 to 1951. Mason Klein and Catherine Evans have edited the perfect survey in words and images. The five illustrated essays run over the first eighty-five pages and cover all you'll need to know about the League and the personalities involved in this liberal photo group.
After the editor's overview, essays look at Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project, women photographers (Lucy Ashjian, Sonia Meyer, Vivian Cherry and Rae Russel) newspapers and magazines of the period who frequently used the work of League members. The final essay, by Anne Tucker, is a fascinating look at the demise of the League during the late forties. It was included in the Blacklist, about ninety organisations that US attorney general Tom Clark, in late 1947, claimed were subversive. Just before this the League had its highest membership of 178 but Cold War rhetoric finally closed the group in 1951.
The 150 Plates are quite stunning. One to a page and beautifully printed as 200 screen duotones. There are only three, in my opinion, that don't quite work because of soft focus. The majority of the photos show working class life on the streets. Page after page of wonderful compositions that pull you into the frame. Although the League is closely identified with New York there are a few photos taken elsewhere in the US and abroad.
What I really liked about the book was the mixing of known and less well known League members. Here's chance to discover a Jack Manning, Joe Schwartz, Marynn Ausubel, Nancy Bulkeley or Lucy Ashjian for example.
The Radical Camera is worthy addition to photo books about New York and the liberal humanist group of photographers who all had something to say through their work.
After the editor's overview, essays look at Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project, women photographers (Lucy Ashjian, Sonia Meyer, Vivian Cherry and Rae Russel) newspapers and magazines of the period who frequently used the work of League members. The final essay, by Anne Tucker, is a fascinating look at the demise of the League during the late forties. It was included in the Blacklist, about ninety organisations that US attorney general Tom Clark, in late 1947, claimed were subversive. Just before this the League had its highest membership of 178 but Cold War rhetoric finally closed the group in 1951.
The 150 Plates are quite stunning. One to a page and beautifully printed as 200 screen duotones. There are only three, in my opinion, that don't quite work because of soft focus. The majority of the photos show working class life on the streets. Page after page of wonderful compositions that pull you into the frame. Although the League is closely identified with New York there are a few photos taken elsewhere in the US and abroad.
What I really liked about the book was the mixing of known and less well known League members. Here's chance to discover a Jack Manning, Joe Schwartz, Marynn Ausubel, Nancy Bulkeley or Lucy Ashjian for example.
The Radical Camera is worthy addition to photo books about New York and the liberal humanist group of photographers who all had something to say through their work.
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In a League of their own
7. Januar 2012
Von Robin Benson
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At last the Photo League gets a comprehensive study that will be the standard work about a group of creative photographers who captured the vibrancy of New York from 1936 to 1951. Mason Klein and Catherine Evans have edited the perfect survey in words and images. The five illustrated essays run over the first eighty-five pages and cover all you'll need to know about the League and the personalities involved in this liberal photo group.
After the editor's overview, essays look at Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project, women photographers (Lucy Ashjian, Sonia Meyer, Vivian Cherry and Rae Russel) newspapers and magazines of the period who frequently used the work of League members. The final essay, by Anne Tucker, is a fascinating look at the demise of the League during the late forties. It was included in the Blacklist, about ninety organizations that US attorney general Tom Clark, in late 1947, claimed were subversive. Just before this the League had its highest membership of 178 but Cold War rhetoric finally closed the group in 1951.
The 150 Plates are quite stunning. One to a page and beautifully printed as 200 screen duotones. There are only three, in my opinion, that don't quite work because of soft focus. The majority of the photos show working class life on the streets. Page after page of wonderful compositions that pull you into the frame. Although the League is closely identified with New York there are a few photos taken elsewhere in the US and abroad.
What I really liked about the book was the mixing of known and less well known League members. Here's chance to discover a Jack Manning, Joe Schwartz, Marynn Ausubel, Nancy Bulkeley or Lucy Ashjian for example.
The Radical Camera is worthy addition to photo books about New York and the liberal humanist group of photographers who all had something to say through their work.
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After the editor's overview, essays look at Aaron Siskind's Harlem Document project, women photographers (Lucy Ashjian, Sonia Meyer, Vivian Cherry and Rae Russel) newspapers and magazines of the period who frequently used the work of League members. The final essay, by Anne Tucker, is a fascinating look at the demise of the League during the late forties. It was included in the Blacklist, about ninety organizations that US attorney general Tom Clark, in late 1947, claimed were subversive. Just before this the League had its highest membership of 178 but Cold War rhetoric finally closed the group in 1951.
The 150 Plates are quite stunning. One to a page and beautifully printed as 200 screen duotones. There are only three, in my opinion, that don't quite work because of soft focus. The majority of the photos show working class life on the streets. Page after page of wonderful compositions that pull you into the frame. Although the League is closely identified with New York there are a few photos taken elsewhere in the US and abroad.
What I really liked about the book was the mixing of known and less well known League members. Here's chance to discover a Jack Manning, Joe Schwartz, Marynn Ausubel, Nancy Bulkeley or Lucy Ashjian for example.
The Radical Camera is worthy addition to photo books about New York and the liberal humanist group of photographers who all had something to say through their work.
###LOOK AT SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
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Classic New York Photography
31. März 2012
Von Damon K. Webster
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After seeing the show in NYC (twice) this book proved to be more than just a catalog. The story of the Photo League during the rebuilding of NYC, through the New Deal, all the way to the infiltration of the red scare of McCarthyism is well told in rich detail with this book.even if you didn't see the show, you get all of the story with images right here.
We'll be giving one of these away on the site.
We'll be giving one of these away on the site.
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Delightful
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Von Robert Dove
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Great black and white photography. As art, many of the photographs show a wonderful eye for light, shadow and lines. As social commentary, I found the essays describing the photographers and their school of thought compelling. And as a New Yorker who moved away thirty years ago, I really enjoyed the photrographer's obvious love for the city and its people. I come back to it again and again.
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