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The Photo League: Views of urban experience in the 1930s and 1940s.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The Photo League: Views of urban experience in the 1930s and 1940s./
作者:	VanArragon, Elizabeth Jane.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2006,
面頁冊數:	494 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International68-06A.
標題:	Art history. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3225681
ISBN:	9780542796135

The Photo League: Views of urban experience in the 1930s and 1940s.
VanArragon, Elizabeth Jane.

The Photo League: Views of urban experience in the 1930s and 1940s. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2006 - 494 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2006.

This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.

This is a study of the Photo League, an association of amateur and professional photographers active in New York City between 1936 and 1951. The members of the Photo League were as convinced of the significance of photography as a mode of visual expression as they were committed to making a contribution to the pressing issue of their day. They claimed among their membership and advisors many of the leading photographers of the period: Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, and Paul Strand, among many others. The Photo League offered photography classes. It also held exhibitions of photography and organized lectures by well-known figures in the world of photography. It published a newsletter, Photo Notes, that contained articles, reviews, and announcements related to significant issues and events in art, politics, and photography. A close reading of Photo League images reveals consistently an underlying concern for urban living conditions. The reflections on American urban experience found in the images provide a multifaceted view of life in the city, based on issues of housing, employment, race, and gender. A study of the images indicates that through photography, the League explored and attempted to define American urban life as they perceived it in the 1930s and 1940s. As they made these observations, members were also clearly aware of the social position of the photographer. This thesis focuses on the work of four members, Walter Rosenblum, Sid Grossman, Aaron Siskind, and Weegee, each of whom provides an example of a different solution to the problem of how to balance form and social content in the documentary mode. It becomes clear in looking at these photographers' work that the Photo League struggled to resolve whether documentary could incorporate expression and subjectivity while communicating political ideas. This study concludes that there was no single solution to this problem but that the resulting images provided the basis for emerging trends in the photography of the 1950s and 1960s.

ISBN: 9780542796135Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122701
Art history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Aaron Siskind

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