Movie Monday Q's-The Photo League

1. What was The Photo League's credo? photography for social betterment because a camera has the power to change the world its more than just something to take pictures with. 
2. What organization did The Photo League separate from? It separated from the Film and Photo League 
3. What was the workshop? The focus of the League and allowed anyone with a camera and $5 for the tuition to join
4. Who taught "the workshop?" Sid Grossman
5. If you were to devote one year of your life to one project, what project is worth your time and energy? I'd devote my time toward shedding light on many of the social justice issues i'm interested in like Feminism, Abortion rights, Racism etc. 
6. What was The Harlem Document? a portrait of black urban america and the people culture and lifestyle of Harlem in  the 1930s
7. Who started The Harlem Document? Aaron Siskend 
8. A photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they came out of a __________ painting. Who was the painter? Caravaggio 
9. Why did the photograph mentioned in #8 look like it was by the painter? one child had an illuminated face and there was other action in front of him he was focused on which happened in the paintings and there was an intense attention to detail in Caravaggios paintings. 
10. Who was Lewis Hine? (name two significant contributions) A photographer who had coined the invention of the type of photography the Photo League was doing and showed the child labor that was going on because of the industrial revolution and the abuse in that area as well as the skyscraper boys who would build sky high buildings with only harnesses.
11. Who was Weegee? A gifted photographer who used to smoke at least 20 cheap cigars everyday and was in the business of murder and mayhem 
12. How did The League change when The Nazis took power? Many gifted refugees came to the area and they began to learn from the Photo League and women ran it because the men were fighting in the war
13. How did The League change during WWII? They started moving away from taking pictures of poor neighborhoods in New York City, so there were fewer photographs of the working class and their struggles than before. 
14. How did Siskind change after WWII? He turned away from the social and political world and started focusing more on abstract thinking and those forms. 
15. What was the Saturday Evening post? a magazine that started publishing twice a month but increased to once a week in 1897 until 1963 when they started published twice a week. 
16. Who was Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph? A photographer who took pictures of modern dancers and the cofounder of Aperture- a photography magazine. 
17. What eventually undermined the Photo League? Many of its members believed in the Progressive causes of the time and the FBI took that to mean they were communists which put them on a blacklist. 
18. What was the "Growing Menace" mentioned in the film? The Japanese imperialist take over of asia and Facism in europe. 
19. Who agreed to serve as President when The League was under investigation? W. Eugene Smith 
20. What happened to the league? Angela Calomiris, an FBI informer, told them the group was Communist and recruitment started to slow down and old members left so the League disbanded in 1951.