1. The credo was: Social change could be achieved through documentary photography and getting close to the subject, not only physically, but emotionally.
2. Film and Photo League preceded the Photo League.
3. The workshop was a class for teaching photography.
4. Sid Grossman taught the workshop.
5. If I were to devote one year of my life to my project, I would work on cleaning up Earth's resources through positive propaganda and photography!
6. Harlem Document was a collection of photographs by Siskind, Engel, and Manning. It documented life in poor neighborhoods like Harlem in NY.
7. Aaron Siskind started the Harlem Document.
8. The kid looked like he came out of a Caravaggio painting.
9. The light shone on one boy's face, making him look incredibly illuminated.
10. Lewis Hine was a photographer of the two sides of America's greatness. He showed the harsh conditions of factory working, and photographed the glory of the "sky" boys working on the steel structures.
11. Weegee was a very eccentric photographer who photographed death and crime.
12. Non-American photographers were often jobless because Americans suspected others of being spies, especially with cameras.
13. The Photo League was accused of being Communist and anti-American.
14. Siskind, after WWII, embraced the more abstract style of art and photography as an art medium.
15. The Saturday Evening Post was a magazine.
16. Barbara Morgan photographed modern dancers in a somewhat abstract, free style.
17. The Photo League fell when it was accused of being Communist. A female spy had 'infiltrated' the Photo League and the Communists and had testified against the Photo League's innocence. The members left the group and the Photo League was dissolved.
18. Communism was the "Growing Menace"
19.W. Eugene Smith served as President.
20. In summer of 1951, Photo League closed because of accusations of being Communist-supportivve.
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