Magnum Photos Celebrates 70 Years of Images With Exhibitions Across New York
- NEW YORK, New York
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- June 01, 2017
Magnum Photos begins the public programme of its 70th anniversary events, which will take place across New York from June 5-30.
Celebrating the agency’s future and commemorating the institution’s significant legacy to both photography and history, Magnum Photos presents new and iconic work by established Magnum photographers.
The public season of events will be focused on Magnum’s three anniversary themes of community, witnessing history and Magnum Photos Now. Including exhibitions, screenings, panels, and sales, the special anniversary programme will encourage people to get closer to the agency’s archival and contemporary work, highlighting the importance of the image in our changing world.
The highlights include the exhibition Magnum Manifesto at ICP (and the accompanying book published by Thames & Hudson); Magnum: A Life In Photography will display 330 images over 50 screens at the Fulton Center from June 1-30; Protest! at Milk gallery will take a look through Magnum's archive at photographs of protest from the 1930s to the present day; and there will be screenings at Metrograph and MoMA between June 15-July 1.
Magnum Manifesto May 26 – September 3, 2017 International Center of Photography, 250 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
A landmark photography exhibition at the ICP Museum celebrating the 70th anniversary of the renowned photo agency. Curators Clément Chéroux and Clara Bouveresse demonstrate how Magnum Photos owes its pre-eminence to the ability of its photographers to encompass and navigate the points between photography as art object and photography as documentary evidence. Featuring group and individual projects, this comprehensive exhibition—and accompanying book publication by Thames & Hudson— includes magazine spreads, newspaper features, and letters, putting some of the world’s most recognizable images in creative context. Sponsored by Canon.
Magnum: A Life In Photography June 1 - 30, 2017 Fulton Center, 200 Broadway, New York, NY 10038
A digitized, rotating exhibit of over 300 historic and contemporary images shown across fifty screens at the Fulton Center in Lower Manhattan. From the early reportage work of Magnum’s founding fathers, including Robert Capa and David Seymour, to contemporary, personal visions of Magnum’s new generation photographers such as Newsha Tavakolian and Carolyn Drake, this display highlights the continued importance of photography as both a journalist tool and form of self expression. In partnership with Westfield.
Magnum: 70 at 70 June 5 – 30, 2017 Neuehouse, 110 E 25th St, New York, NY 10010 Open weekends 12pm – 6pm – Register at ProgrammingMS@neuehouse.com
An exhibition of 70 pictorial and historical photographic icons, celebrating the diversity of the Magnum Photos agency and how its photographers have born witness to major events of the last 70 years. Including seminal works by Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Martin Parr and Christopher Anderson, the exhibition spans the globe and covers regional events such as Arab Spring, South Africa under apartheid and the recent migration crisis. In partnership with Neuehouse and Picto NY.
Protest! June 20 – July 15, 2017 Milk gallery, 450 West 15th St, New York NY 10011
At a time of major political disruption, with the rise of populism and a swing to the right in Europe and the USA coming hot on the heels of the Arab Spring, this exhibition takes a look through Magnum's archive at photographs of protest from the 1930s to the present day. Photographs that have taken on a totemic value in popular culture, such as Eve Arnold's portrait of civil rights activist Malcolm X (1962), Marc Riboud's Vietnam War protestor (1967) Stuart Franklin's Tank Man (1989) sit with powerful contemporary pictures from Ukraine by Jerome Sessini (2014) and Standing Rock (2017) by Larry Towell.
Henri Cartier-Bresson “India in Full Frame” April 21- September 4, 2017 The Rubin Museum, 150 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011
India in Full Frame presents sixty-nine photographs of transformative moments in Indian history by the pioneering photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, including scenes of political upheaval, the final moments in Mahatma Gandhi’s life, and everyday people in CartierBresson’s “street photography” style that has influenced generations of artists.
Visit www.magnumphotos.com/magnum-photos-70 or to follow the celebrations, search #MagnumPhotos70
![Offering a Truce [Bested], 1895, is estimated to sell for between $1,300,000 and $1,800,000 on March 22, 2014, for The Russell: An Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum.](/images/c/a8/20/Dec10_Offering_a_Truce__Bested_300dpi100x100_c.jpg "Offering a Truce [Bested], 1895, is estimated to sell for between $1,300,000 and $1,800,000 on March 22, 2014, for The Russell: An Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum.")
