The Magnum Mark: Selections from the Magnum Photos Archive
Event Details
01 / 03
June 30 - September 10, 2010, New York, USA
The Magnum Mark: Selections from the Magnum Photos Archive
The signature styles of Magnum's photographers and their commitment to documenting the world have brought each of them individual acclaim. But it is their collective and it’s archive, with its wealth of iconic images, that have guaranteed their influence on Twentieth and early Twenty-First Century visual culture. As digital technology usurps analogue, in both the taking and distribution of photographic work, the physical print archive, once at the heart of Magnum’s business, has taken on a new role as a resource for scholarship and exhibition. Concurrently, the market value of the photographic print as object, as well as image, grows. This exhibition sets out to celebrate the legacy of Magnum's print archive, uncovering the processes behind traditional, manual, image dissemination, interpreting the mysterious marks on the back of press prints and demonstrating the craft of printing Magnum’s famous photographs. It also looks to our digital future, in which technological innovation and the world wide web have created exciting new models to deliver, and re-interpret Magnum's photography.
Featured within the exhibition will be previously unseen press prints, darkroom “print maps”, original contact sheets and additional ephemera from Magnum’s New York archive alongside a new media component.
Magnum Photos, founded by the forefathers of documentary photography – Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David “Chim” Seymour and George Rodger – is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. Since its inception in 1947, Magnum’s photographers collectively have chronicled the most significant historical and cultural milestones of the 20th Century. Today, through its offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, Magnum provides photographs to the media, publishers, advertising agencies, galleries, and museums across the world. Its collections also form the basis of numerous exhibitions, multimedia presentations, and books.
When & Where
June 30 - September 10, 2010
Tuesday - Friday: 12pm - 5pm
The FLAG Art Foundation
545 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
USA
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