# @gettyimages on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NMmF7go5f
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16446428-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-03-26T18:02:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

Looking at images by Rae Russel, you sense a photographer who delighted in the act of picture-taking. The American photojournalist often captured others with camera in hand, connecting her moment with theirs. ⁠⠀
A member of the New York collective, Photo League, the group formed a socially aware ethos, in which the camera was not only a tool to communicate human experience, but one to enrich that experience through participation, articulation and empowerment. 
Founded in 1936 by Berenice Abbott and Paul Strand, a third of its members were women, while Brooklyn-born Russel was one of the many members who taught photography, as well as practised. ⁠⠀
While the Photo League didn’t demand a particular aesthetic beyond its motivation and commitment to the documentary genre, Russell’s sensitive portraits have a commonality with the images of League peers Harold Feinstein and Sid Grossman. Brilliantly-tuned in light and shadow, she shares her lens with the subject and never feels far away. Using a Rolleiflex, her face would not have been obscured by the camera; held at waist height, it produced that child's point-of-view that appears so engaged, as if she is about to join in. ⁠⠀
You can see Russel poised to take a picture in our gallery here, all images taken in New York and along the East Coast of America in the 1940s.⁠⠀
As we continue to celebrate Women's History Month, follow our bio link to discover more pioneering female photographers from gettyarchive.⁠⠀
📷: Rae Russel/Archive Photos/Getty Images | #GettyImages25 #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive⁠⠀
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