Sixty years ago this week, the Photo League fell victim to Cold War witch hunts and blacklists, closing its doors after 15 intense years of trailblazing – and sometimes hell-raising – documentary photography. From unabashedly leftist roots, the group influenced a generation of photographers who transformed the documentary tradition, elevating it to heady aesthetic heights.
Jerome Liebling, Butterfly Boy,
New York, 1949
I like art with a political message. I'll try to see this show at The Jewish Museum in NYC.
Link to videos about the Photo League.
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