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Street Team: New York’s Photo League

This week in the magazine, Vince Aletti writes about the Jewish Museum’s current exhibition, “The Radical Camera,” a survey of New York’s Photo League, which lasted from 1936 to 1951. The show, Aletti writes, “rounds up vintage prints by the men and women who made the League a magnet for Depression-era idealists and activists and, later, a target for McCarthyism”: Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Berenice Abbott, Paul Strand, and many more. “Passionately engaged with the city and its poorest citizens, their work is brash, poignant, gritty and often opinionated,” Aletti writes. “It’s also artful, often movingly so, but never at the expense of tough reality.”

Head over to our Photo Booth blog for more photographs from the exhibition: http://nyr.kr/ue6I82