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ARTICLE: New York Photo League

Original Members
Morris Engel (born 1918, New York, New York; died 2005)

George Gilbert (born George Gelberg, 1922, Brooklyn, New York)

Sid Grossman (born 1914, New York, New York; died 1955)

Morris Huberland (born 1909, Warsaw, Poland; died 2003)

Sidney Kerner (born 1920, Brooklyn, New York)

Sol Libsohn (born 1914, Harlem, New York; died 2001)

A self-taught photographer who originally earned his living documenting paintings, Libsohn co-founded the Photo League with Sid Grossman. Libsohn was an important teacher at the League as well as a member and leader of numerous production groups. In addition to freelance work for numerous magazines, he also was employed by Roy Stryker for the documentary project of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (later Exxon), the Federal Art Project, and Princeton University, where he taught art and photography to disadvantaged youth in the Summer Program. Libsohn was a personal acquaintance of Romana Javitz, head of The New York Public Library’s Picture Collection from 1929 to 1968, who sought out his work for the Library.

Richard A. Lyon (born 1914, New York, New York; died 1994)

Jack Manning (born Jack Mendelsohn, 1920, New York, New York; died 2001)

Walter Rosenblum (born 1919, New York, New York; died 2006)

Arthur Rothstein (born 1915, New York, New York; died 1985)

Edward Schwartz (born 1906, Brooklyn, New York; died 2005)

Aaron Siskind (born 1903, New York, New York; died 1991)

Lou Stoumen (born 1917, Springtown, Pennsylvania; died 1991)

Weegee (born Usher Fellig, 1899, Zloczew, Poland; died 1968)

Dan Weiner (born 1919, New York, New York; died 1959)

Sandra Weiner (born Sandra Smith, 1921, Drohiczan, Poland)

Feature Group
Started and led by Aaron Siskind, 1936

The Harlem Document

The Chelsea Document

“Today Chelsea is by no means a suburban paradise. The figures say it is closer to an urban hell, its streets thronged with the city’s trucking, the majority of its homes guiltless of plumbing and steam heat, its children robbed of sunlight, air and play space.” —Elizabeth McCausland, Photo Notes, May 1940