Magnum's First
Event Details
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February 4 - May 10, 2009, München, Germany
Magnum's First
Until recently it was thought that the earliest Magnum group show was the photographic scholar L. Fritz Gruber's 1956 exhibit, curated for the Photokina in Cologne. However, more than 50 years later, an even earlier show has been rediscovered. Magnum Photo: Gesicht der Zeit (The Face of Time) was organized by the Amateur Photographers' Club of Graz, Austria and was shown in the Graz Joanneum from January 21 to February 5 1955 before traveling to four other Austrian cities in 1955 and 1956.
The show's main theme was "photographic humanism"--people and their living spaces, photographed without sensationalism by committed photojournalists who believed in educating and bettering the world through photographic documentation.
Reportage photographs byWerner Bischof, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Ernst Haas, Erich Lessing, Jean Marquis, Inge Morath and Marc Riboud are shown in this exhibition.
When & Where
February 4 - May 10, 2009
Monday - Sunday: 9am to 7pm
Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern
Maximilianstraße 53
München 80538
Germany
Phone: +49 89 2160 4010
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