Berenice Abbott
In 1936, Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) started the Photo League in New York City with Paul Strand to provide the radical press with photographs of trade-union activities and political protests. The group would grow to include more than 400 members. While remaining committed to aligning the expressive power of photography with progressive politics, its mission broadened to documenting working class life.
See a gallery of photographs from a comprehensive survey of the group’s work The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951, at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, here.
https://www.thecjm.org/exhibitions/34
See a gallery of images from the show The Women of the Photo League, ranging from Abbott and other well-known female photographers such as Ruth Orkin and Helen Levitt, to many others, here.
https://higherpictures.com/exhibitions/the-women-of-the-photo-league/
Want to see more of Berenice Abbott’s photographs of New York City? The Museum of the City of New York has over 2000 of them, here.