1.
What was
The Photo League's credo?
The photos
League’s credo was the belief of expressive power in documentary photography
and a progressive alliance in the 1930s of socialist ideas and art.
2.
What
organization did The Photo League separate from?
The Photo
League was separate from the Film and Photo League.
3.
What was
the workshop?
To learn
to take photographs and take good photographs. Furthermore, to learn the focus
in photography.
4.
Who
taught "the workshop?"
Sid
Grossman
5.
If you
were to devote one year of your life to one project, what project is worth your
time and energy?
I would
devote one year of my life towards learning how to paint.
6.
What was
The Harlem Document?
A portrait
of Black urban America and the people, culture, and lifestyles of Harlem during
the 1930s.
7.
Who
started The Harlem Document?
Aaron
Siskind, then part of the Photo League, and the writer Michael Carter started
the Harlem document.
8.
A
photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they
came out of a Carrovasio painting. Who was the painter?
9.
Why did
the photograph mentioned in #8 look like it was by the painter?
The sun
shined on the kid who sat on the right side which made the painting special.
10.
Who was
Lewis Hine? (name two significant contributions)
Lewis
Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and photographer. His photographs were
instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States. Also, Hine
made a series of "work portraits," which emphasized the human
contribution to modern industry.
11.
Who was
Weegee?
Weegee was
the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a photographer and photojournalist, known for
his stark black and white street photography.
12.
How did
The League change when The Nazis took power?
When the
Nazis took power, more women joined the League because men went to fight in the
war.
13.
How did
The League change during WWII?
Many
members joined the Photo League, before the end of World War II, were
first-generation Americans who strongly believed in progressive political and
social causes.
14.
How did
Siskind change after WWII?
Siskind's
efforts might be interpreted as one way of clearing a place in which to make
sense of the surrounding chaos. The making of the photograph seems to become a
method of finding one's place in the world and forging a relationship to it.
15.
What was
the Saturday Evening post?
The
Saturday Evening Post is a bimonthly American magazine. It was published weekly
under this title from 1897 until 1963.
16.
Who was
Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph?
Barbara
Morgan was an American photographer best known for her depictions of modern
dancers. She was a co-founder of the photography magazine Aperture.
17.
What
eventually undermined the Photo League?
The idea
that the League was a front organization for the Communist Party.
The
“growing menace” refers to facsim.
19.
Who
agreed to serve as President when The League was under investigation?
Harry S.
Truman
20.
What
happened to the league?
It disbanded in 1951.
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