Tom Fredrickson, writer and editor

 

photoleague

This Was the Photo League: Compassion and the Camera from the Depression to the Cold War

Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; 176 pages

Editor, 2004

A history of the New York City–based Photo League, an organization of socially conscious photographers that included Jerome Leibling, Morris Engel, Walter Rosenblum, Morris Huberland, Sid Grossman, Sol Libsohn, Dan Weiner, and othersThe book features 169 duotone reproductions, as well as a timeline, biographie, and a bibliography.