Ordinary Miracles:
The Photo League’s New York

Narrated by Campbell Scott

1h 14min | Not Rated | 2012

Black and white movie poster for 'Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League's New York,' featuring a cityscape with a bridge, brick wall, and a young boy leaning on the wall.

The rise and politically motivated fall of the Photo League (1936-1951)

ORDINARY MIRACLES: THE PHOTO LEAGUE’S NEW YORK, narrated by Campbell Scott, is a feature documentary which tells the story of the Photo League, (1936–1951), which for fifteen years functioned as the vital nerve center of the American documentary movement in an era when the camera was seen—in James Agee’s words, as “the central instrument of our time.” The film pays tribute to photographers including Lewis Hine and Weegee, and features interviews with Jerome Liebling, Sol Libson, Rebecca Lepkoff, Morris Engel, Joe Schwartz, Walter Rosenblum, Rosalie Gwathmey, Vivian Cherry and Erica Stone. The film features a captivating score of authentic period music.


2013 - Amsterdam Film Festival

Van Gogh Award for Best Documentary


Campbell Scott
Narrator

Campbell Scott, narrator

Trailer

Reviews


CHANGING THE WORLD, A PICTURE AT A TIME

By Manohla Dargis, New York Times


An extraordinary era documented in ‘Ordinary Miracles’

By Gary Goldstein, L.A. Times


Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League’s New York

By Lou Lumenick, New York Post


'Ordinary Miracles' records a growing city

By Lauren Bender, Berkshire Eagle Staff



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