Lester Balog
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Lester Balog
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Lester Balog was a labor activist and founding member of the Workers' Film & Photo League. Born in Hungary, he immigrated to the United States in the early 1920s. A soccer player in Budapest, after immigrating to the U.S. with his family as a teen, he joined the Labor Sports Union in New York. From there, he got involved with other Workers' organizations. In 1925, after mainstream media photographers were beaten during the Passaic Textile Strike in Passaic, New Jersey, he took up a camera to doc
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American photographer
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2023-09-11T17:06:27Z
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