| ♕ | La strada - Terre Senesi, Tuscany | by © Luigi Cavasin
Not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane - Marcus Aurelius
© Alexander Alland, 1938, Untitled (Brooklyn Bridge)
A game of hopscotch. A toothpaste ad. Filthy slums. This, for better or worse, was New York life in the 1930s. Many looked but few saw until the Photo League—a pioneering group of young, idealistic documentary photographers—captured that life with cameras.
The Manhattan-based League, which incorporated a school, darkroom, gallery and salon, was the first institution of its kind when it was founded in 1936 says Mason Klein, curator of fine arts at The Jewish Museum, which is currently presenting “The Radical Camera” (on display through March 25, 2012), an exhibition in collaboration with the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio.
“There was nothing like the Photo League, where people could exhibit their work, students alongside their mentors, be taught a kind of history of photography and start understanding what the meaning of the photograph might be.” (read more)
(Source: asaya)