Arnold S. Eagle
Arnold Eagle(1909 - October 25, 1992) was a Hungarian-American photographer and cinematographer, known for his socially concerned documentary photographs of the 1930s and 1940s.
Life
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Eagle emigrated from Hungary to Brooklyn with his family in 1929.
He joined theWorkers Film and Photo Leaguein 1932 to use his art to promote radical social change. In 1935, theWorks Progress Administrationhired him to photograph New York slums, the Second Avenue El district and theLower East Side.[1]In 1936, he joined thePhoto Leagueas one of the earliest members and later formed the War Production Group within the Photo League in 1942.[2]Eagle freelanced forFortune,The Saturday Evening Post,and other magazines.
Through theFederal Art Projectin 1938, he photographed the Jewish community on the Lower East Side. These photographs were published in the 1992 bookAt Home Only With God: Believing Jews and Their Children,with an essay byArthur Hertzberg.
Photo Leaguephotographers Eagle,Sol Libsohnand David Robbins exhibited a series of photographs of slum districts in New York at the Federal Art Gallery in New York in 1938.[3]The series was inspired byFranklin D. Roosevelt's "one-third of a nation" (the ill-clothed, ill-housed and ill-nourished) strategy.[4]
Eagle was the director of the photography workshop of theNational Youth Administrationwith his assistant,Harold Corsini,from 1939 to 1942.[5]He worked withRoy Strykeron theStandard OilProject from 1943 to 1947. He was the still photographer for the 1948 filmLouisiana StorybyRobert J. Flahertyand the cinematographer for the 1947 filmDreams That Money Can BuybyHans Richter,as well as several of his own documentary films.[6]
Eagle was a professor of photography at theNew School for Social Researchfrom 1955 until shortly before his death. He was interred at Mount Judah Cemetery in Queens, New York.[7]
Recent exhibitions (selection)
[edit]- November 4, 2011 – March 25, 2012"The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951"atThe Jewish Museum
References
[edit]- ^"New York Times obituary: Arnold Eagle".The New York Times.1992-10-27.Retrieved2012-04-19.
- ^"International Center of Photography bio: Arnold Eagle".Emuseum.icp.org. Archived fromthe originalon 2019-10-24.Retrieved2012-04-19.
- ^"New Deal Network: Photo League Members Exhibit At Federal Art Gallery".Newdeal.feri.org.Retrieved2012-04-19.
- ^"The Jewish Museum Bio: Arnold Eagle".Thejewishmuseum.org. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-09-13.Retrieved2012-04-19.
- ^"The Photographers: Harold Raymond Corsini".Clpgh.org. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-01-10.Retrieved2012-04-19.
- ^"Interviews With ASMP Founders: Arnold Eagle".Asmp.org. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-05-24.Retrieved2012-04-19.
- ^"Arnold Eagle (1909–1992) - Find A Grave Memorial".www.findagrave.com.Retrieved2021-07-17.
External links
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- Interviews With ASMP Founders: Arnold Eagle,American Society of Media Photographers
- One Third of a Nation, by Arnold Eagle and David Robbins
- Arnold Eagle dance photograph collection, 1934-1965- Jerome Robbins Dance Division,New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Arnold Eagle papers and films related to Hans Richter, 1927-1990.Getty Research Institute,Los Angeles. Accession No. 970021. This collection documents the film collaborations and friendship of German-born Dadaist, Hans Richter, and New York photographer and cinematographer, Arnold Eagle. It includes color film footage, out-takes and audiotracks for several of Richter's post-World War II films, as well as letters, notes, scripts, sketches, photographs, printed material and storyboards.
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