Twin Lenses
1h 14min | Not Rated | 22 June 2012
The rise and politically motivated fall of the Photo League (1936-1951)
Twin Lenses is a feature documentary highlighting the careers of pioneering fashion photographers and twin sisters Frances McLaughlin Gill (the first woman photographer on the staff of Vogue) and Kathryn Abbe, both of whom worked in the glamorous world of fashion and editorial photography in NYC during the nineteen forties and fifties.
TrailerAn extraordinary era documented in ‘Ordinary Miracles.
— By Gary Goldstein, L. A. Times
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
VIDEOS
"Butterfly Boy", by Jerome Liebling
"Woman in Hat", by Jack Manning
“Shout Freedom” , by Rosalie Gwathmey’s (1948)
