Movie Notes: The Photo League

1. The Photo League's credo was striving to capture daily life in many ways
2. The Photo League separated from the film and photo League
3. The workshop was a class where people in the Photo League could learn about photography
4. Sid Grossman taught the workshop
5. If i were to devote my time and energy i would spend it on documenting social problems in daily life.
6. The Harlem Document was a compilation of photos from Harlem that depicted daily life during the 1930s.
7. Aaron Siskind started The Harlem Document
8. The painter was Caravaggio.
9. Caravaggio's paintings were known for having intensely dark and somber backgrounds intense detail.
10. Lewis Hine was a photographer that took photos of child labor and relief from the Red Cross during the Great Depression
11. Weegee was a photographer who shot crime in New York City
12. The refugees who escaped the Nazis joined the League
13. The Photo League didn't document the realist side of photography as much.
14. He tried looking instead for meaning in the sentient forms around him.
15. The Saturday evening post was a magazine.
16. Barbara Morgan was a photographer who took pictures of modern dancing.
17. Because the members of the Photo League often delved into social issues, they were convicted of being communist by the FBI.
18. It was fascism in Europe
19. Eugene Smith
20. FBI informer Angela Calomiris had testified in May 1949 that the League was a front organization for the Communist Party, the Photo League was finished. Recruitment dried up and old members left, including one of its founders and former president, Paul Strand, as well as Louis Stettner. The League disbanded in 1951.