Movie Monday: The Photo League

1. The Photo League's credo was "Struggle against and expose reactionary film".
2. The Photo League separated from Frontier Films.
3. The workshop was a photo exhibit and a gathering of photographers.
4. Kanaga taught the workshop.
5. Anything I work on, I will make sure it is worth my time and energy.
6. The Harlem Document was an important photo collection of Harlem during the Great Depression.
7. Aaron Siskind started the Harlem Document.
8. A photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they came out of a Picasso painting.
9. The photographer mentioned it looked like it was by the painter because it had a surreal appearance.
10. Lewis Hine was a child labor photographer.
11. Weegee was a street photographer of crime scenes.
12. The League changed when the Nazis took power because they began to focus on the details of war life.
13. The League changed during WWII because their focus changed due to the aftermath of the war.
14. Siskind changed after WWII because he began looking for the positive aspects of life.
15. The Saturday Evening post was a magazine the chronicles American history.
16. Barbra Morgan was a photographer who photographed modern dancers.
17. The Photo League was undermined when they were accused as a communist organization.
18. The "Growing Menace" in the film were the accusations of communism.
19. Louis Steffrer agreed to serve as president when The League was under investigation.
20. The League stopped recruiting and slowly died out.