Arnold Eagle
American, b. Hungary, 1909-1992
Born 1909, Budapest, Hungary
Died 1992
Eagle came from Hungary to Brooklyn with his family in 1929. He first worked as a photograph retoucher before joining the Film and Photo League in 1932. Three years later, the Works Progress Administration hired him to photograph New York slums, the Second Avenue El district, and the Lower East Side. In 1936 he became one of the earliest members of the newly formed Photo League; an early project was photographing the Jewish community of Brownsville, Brooklyn. In 1938 he documented the Jewish community of the Lower East Side for the Federal Art Project (FAP). These photographs were published in the 1992 book At Home Only with God: Believing Jews and Their Children, with an essay by Arthur Hertzberg. Eagle freelanced for Fortune, Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. He collaborated with his fellow Photo Leaguer David Robbins on a series of photographs of slum districts in New York, inspired by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "one-third of a nation" (the ill-clothed, ill-housed and ill-nourished), which was exhibited at the Federal Art Gallery, New York, in 1938, together with some works by Sol Libsohn. Director of the photography workshop of the National Youth Administration (1939–42), he later formed a War Production Group at the Photo League (1942). From 1943 to 1947 Eagle worked with Roy Stryker on the Standard Oil project. He was a still photographer for Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story (1948) and the cinematographer for Hans Richter's Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947). Eagle was a professor of photography at the New School for Social Research, New York, from 1955 until shortly before his death.
Died 1992
Eagle came from Hungary to Brooklyn with his family in 1929. He first worked as a photograph retoucher before joining the Film and Photo League in 1932. Three years later, the Works Progress Administration hired him to photograph New York slums, the Second Avenue El district, and the Lower East Side. In 1936 he became one of the earliest members of the newly formed Photo League; an early project was photographing the Jewish community of Brownsville, Brooklyn. In 1938 he documented the Jewish community of the Lower East Side for the Federal Art Project (FAP). These photographs were published in the 1992 book At Home Only with God: Believing Jews and Their Children, with an essay by Arthur Hertzberg. Eagle freelanced for Fortune, Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. He collaborated with his fellow Photo Leaguer David Robbins on a series of photographs of slum districts in New York, inspired by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "one-third of a nation" (the ill-clothed, ill-housed and ill-nourished), which was exhibited at the Federal Art Gallery, New York, in 1938, together with some works by Sol Libsohn. Director of the photography workshop of the National Youth Administration (1939–42), he later formed a War Production Group at the Photo League (1942). From 1943 to 1947 Eagle worked with Roy Stryker on the Standard Oil project. He was a still photographer for Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story (1948) and the cinematographer for Hans Richter's Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947). Eagle was a professor of photography at the New School for Social Research, New York, from 1955 until shortly before his death.
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