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September 8, 2011
Jerome Liebling roots were in the Photo League, a co-operative of amateur and professional photographers committed to social documentary photography in the 1940s. He became a teacher to earn money and a documentary film maker. His work was motivated "to go figure out where the pain was, to show things that people wouldn’t see unless I was showing them.”
Jerome Liebling, Men's Hat Shop, Jerusalem, 1983.
His subject matter was often dark and uncompromisingly noncommercial: the blood-drenched workers at a Minnesota slaughterhouse; mental patients in a state hospital; cadavers used by New York medical students. Throughout his working life, he used a Rolleiflex film camera and did not make the switch to digital photography.
Throughout his working life, he used a Rolleiflex film camera and did not make the switch to digital photography.
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