Go See the "Radical Camera" @ The Jewish Museum - Bring your friends!

Dog Star knows there is so much to learn about the history of photography in New York City.  Happily for devoted teen readers and others, many photography shows this season help us discover more of the story and how NYC artists made art out of their urban experience.  One of these shows is called The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 at The Jewish Museum (more here) on view from November 04, 2011 - March 25, 2012.  We look forward to seeing this show because it will provide images of "old New York" - the way it used to be before the world changed so much.  We especially like this image (shown at the right in this post) called "Butterfly Boy," taken by
Jerome Liebling in 1949 on the streets of Harlem.  The boy looks nervous and confident at the same time and has assumed a kind of superhero pose for the photographer with his caped jacket.  Here's what the museum says about the show:  In 1936 a group of young, idealistic photographers, most of them Jewish, first-generation Americans, formed an organization in Manhattan called the Photo League. Their solidarity centered on a belief in the expressive power of the documentary photograph and on a progressive alliance in the 1930s of socialist ideas and art. The Radical Camera presents the contested path of the documentary photograph during a tumultuous period that spanned the New Deal reforms of the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.  The Jewish Museum is EASY TO REACH - you don't have to be Jewish to go there! - at 5th Avenue & 92nd Street.  Go on Saturdays @ 11am when it's FREE for everybody!