The Photo League

1. The Photo League's credo was social change could be achieved through documenting photography and a connection with one's subject.

2. Separated from Worker's Camera League

3. The Photo League School

4. Sid Grossman and Sol Libsohn

5. Any project that you have a passion to do. Could be anything you want to do. Devoting a year of your life to a dream you've had all of your life and fulfilling that dream is priceless.

6. Pictures of Black urban America in the 1930s

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