Photo League

The Photo League

The Photo League was a cooperative of photographers in New York who banded together around a range of common social and creative causes. Founded in 1936, the League included some of the most noted American photographers of the mid-20th century among its members. It ceased operations in 1951 following its placement in 1947 on the U.S. Department of Justice blacklist with accusations that it was a communist, anti-American organization. The League's origins traced back to a project of the Workers International Relief (WIR), a communist association based in Berlin. In 1930 the WIR established the Workers Camera League in New York City, which soon came to be known as the Film and Photo League. Its goals were to 'struggle against and expose reactionary film; to produce documentary films reflecting the lives and struggles of the American workers; and to spread and popularize the great artistic and revolutionary Soviet productions' (Anne Tucker, in: The Photo League: Photography as a Social Force. Modern Photography. p. 90, 1979).

Members of the Photo League

Members of the Photo League (source: The Jewish Museum New York)

Berenice ABBOTT, Alexander ALLAND, Lucy ASHJIAN, Marynn Older AUSUBEL, Lou BERNSTEIN, Nancy BULKELEY, Rudy BURCKHARDT, Angela CALOMIRIS, Vivian CHERRY, Bernard COLE, Larry COLWELL, Ann COOPER, Harold CORSINI, Jack DELANO, Robert DISRAELI, Arnold EAGLE, John EBSTEL, Myron EHRENBERG, Eliot ELISOFON, Martin ELKORT, Morris ENGEL, Harold FEINSTEIN, Godfrey FRANKEL, George GILBERT, Leo GOLDSTEIN, Sid GROSSMAN, Rosalie GWATHMEY, Lewis W. HINE, Morris HUBERLAND, Nathan Jay JAFFEE, Consuelo KANAGA, Seymour KATTELSON, Sidney KERNER, Gabriella LANGENDORF, Arthur LEIPZIG, Rebecca LEPKOFF, Jack LESSINGER, Leon LEVINSTEIN, Sol LIBSOHN, Jerome LIEBLING, Richard LYON, Sam MAHL, Jack MANNING, Phyllis DEARBORN MASSAR, Tosh MATSUMOTO, Sonia HANDELMAN MEYER, Lisette MODEL, Barbara MORGAN, Lida MOSER, Arnold NEWMAN, Marvin E. NEWMAN, Ruth ORKIN, Marion PALFI, Bea PANCOAST, Solomon Fabricant PROM, David ROBBINS, Walter ROSENBLUM, Edwin ROSSKAM, Arthur ROTHSTEIN, Rae RUSSEL, Edward SCHWARTZ, Joe SCHWARTZ, Ann Zane SHANKS, Lee SIEVAN, Larry SILVER, Aaron SISKIND, W. Eugene SMITH, Fred STEIN, Ralph STEINER, Louis STETTNER, Erika STONE, Lou STUEMEN, Paul STRAND, Rolf TIETGENS, Elizabeth TIMBERMAN, David VESTAL, John VACHON, WEEGEE, Dan WEINER, Sandra WEINER, Bill WITT, Ida WYMAN, Max YAVNO, George S. ZIMBEL

Photo books by members of the Photo League

STRAND, Paul - Ghana. An African Portrait
STRAND, Paul - Ghana. An African Portrait
For out-of-print book 'Ghana. An African Portrait', Paul STRAND collected and found motifs - landscapes, architecture, portraits, street scenes - that were suitable for documenting the transition to modernization of Ghana, who had declared as independent.
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ABBOTT, Berenice - Portraits der Moderne. Photographien
ABBOTT, Berenice - Portraits der Moderne. Photographien
The book 'Berenice Abbott. Portraits der Moderne' gives selected works and explanatory essays on the three major groups of works - portraits, cityscapes, natural science.
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ABBOTT, Berenice - Documenting Science
ABBOTT, Berenice - Documenting Science
The works in out-of-print set 'Documenting Science' by Berenice ABBOTT illustrates that science photographs can be beautiful AND educational. Her photographs have fundamentally changed the way thousands of students visualize complex principles of physics.
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STETTNER, Louis - Sous Le Ciel de Paris
STETTNER, Louis - Sous Le Ciel de Paris
Re-edit, HC with dust jacket, 21 x 20 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 73 b/w ills., bilingual text: French / English
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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri & Paul STRAND - Mexique. 1932-1934
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri & Paul STRAND - Mexique. 1932-1934
Now world-famous photographers Henri CARTIER-BRESSON (France) and Paul STRAND (USA) both traveled to Mexico at a young age in the early 1930s. The out-of-print book 'Mexique 1932-34' offers the possibility of comparing their photographic work at that time
from 18,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
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STRAND, Paul - Southwest
STRAND, Paul - Southwest
'Paul Strand. Southwest' reconstructs a previously largely unexplored period of his distinguished career through b&w photographs shown for the first time, including dramatic landscapes and decaying ghost towns, as well as a collection of notes & ephemera.
from 20,00 € Weight 1 kg
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HINE, Lewis W. - The Boss Don't Care. Kinderarbeit in den USA 1908-1917
HINE, Lewis W. - The Boss Don't Care. Kinderarbeit in den USA 1908-1917
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 28,5 x 31 x 3,5 cm., 320 S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
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HINE, Lewis - America at work
HINE, Lewis - America at work
Pb., 14 x 19,5 x 4 cm., 544 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: English, German & French
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WEEGEE, - The WEEGEE Guide to New York. Roaming the City with its Greatest Tabloid Photographer
WEEGEE, - The WEEGEE Guide to New York. Roaming the City with its Greatest Tabloid Photographer
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13,5 x 23,5 x 3,5 cm., 432 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
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Hinter der Kamera. Das Leben der grossen Fotografen
Hinter der Kamera. Das Leben der grossen Fotografen
In German language 'Hinter der Kamera', Juliet Hacking portrays 38 of the most important personalities in the history of photography. By working out contexts, the portraits add to an overview of great innovations, trends and developments in photography.
24,80 € * Weight 1.3 kg
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