Thursday, February 12, 2015
The Photo League Movie Questions.
1. To spread photography and teach more people photography.
2. The Film and Photo League
3. A photo class offered by the Photo League.
4. Sid Grossman
5. Making my own videogame
6. It was a project to document life in Harlem in the depression and to raise awareness for it.
7. Aaron Siskind
8."The children looked like they came out of a Caravaggio painting.
9. The photo looked like it was painted by Caravaggio because the boy in the photograph was illuminated by the sunshine and looked special. Many of Caravaggio's works are dark but have the main focus of the painting very well lit.
10. Lewis Hine was a photographer who worked to end child labor and photographed American Red Cross relief efforts during World War 1.
11. Arthur Fellig, aka Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist that was known for his sharp black and white street photography.
12. When the Nazis took power, the Photo League received talented photographers who had escaped from Europe.
13. Photo league members used cameras to support the war effort in America. Many female members of the League took over operations of the effort at home while many of the Photo League's men photographers went overseas with armed forces.
14. Aaron Siskind brought the concept of abstract expressionism to photography, different from the sociological realism from the Harlem document.
15. The Saturday Evening Post was a bimonthly American magazine that was published weekly. Most of the photographs used in the articles were taken by members of the Photo League.
16. Barbara Morgan was an American photographer famous for her depictions of modern dancers. She was a co-founder of the photo magazine, Aperture.
17. The League's connection to Communism and Soviets
18. The Soviet Union
19. Eugene Smith agreed to serve as President when the League was under investigation.
20. Disbanded in 1951
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