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The Radical Camera

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Photo League, Aaron Siskind, Photography, Harlem, Jewish Museum, Columbus-Museum-of-Art, W. Eugene Smith, Jerome Liebling, Sid Grossman, Mccarthyism, Photojournalism, Great Depression, Culture News
Richard Schiffman

When the Photo League closed its doors in 1951, after being listed as a subversive organization by the U.S. Attorney General, it had already enjoyed an historic 15-year run, which helped to change the direction of American photography

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Emergency Relief Funds Help Artists in Dire Need

Daniel Grant | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Aid to Artisans, Adolph Gottlieb, George Segal, Inc., New York Artists Equity, Business of Art, Lee Krasner, Jacob Lawrence, Judith Rothschild, Robert Rauschenberg, Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Change, W. Eugene Smith, Actor's Equity, Joan Mitchell, Cerf, Arts News
Daniel Grant

A high percentage of artists and craftspeople have no health or studio insurance, creating a small margin for any type of sickness or accident that may occur.

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Suffering for Art and Telling a Story Nobody Else Will Tell

David Schonauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, HIV/AIDS, W. Eugene Smith, Poverty, Art Grants, Arts News
David Schonauer

While photographing a team of doctors in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, Darcy Padilla met Julie Baird, a 19-year-old recently diagnosed with AIDS. The documentary project that grew out of that meeting would last 18 years.

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