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Jewish Museum pays hommage to documentary photographers from New York’s Photo League

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Compelling portraits of everyday life drawn from the streets of New York City form the heart of a new exhibit that opened on Friday at The Jewish Museum. “The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951,” recognizes the role that the League played in the evolution of the documentary photograph, The organization of young, idealistic photographers saw documentary photography as both an art form and a way to argue for social justice. “The documentary photograph changed as a result of the really great teaching that distinguished the League in the form of (photographer) Sid Grossman who pushed his students to discover the meaning of their work, but also their relationship to it,” said Mason Klein, curator at The Jewish Museum. “That helped their work become more