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Radical Transformation: Magnum Photos into the Digital Age

October 24, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography

In the Galleries: Susan Meiselas

Susan Meiselas. "Nicaragua. Matagalpa. Muchachos await the counterattack by the National Guard." 1978 © Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos.

In a stunning break with the black-and-white tradition of war photography, Susan Meiselas’s pulsating color images documenting the resistance against—and ultimate insurrection of—the brutal Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua were published in magazines and newspapers around the world. The revolutionaries quickly appropriated her photographs, adapting them for billboards, postage stamps, posters,… read more 

October 14, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography

In the Galleries: Josef Koudelka

Josef Koudelka. "Czechoslovakia. Slovakia. Michalovce." 1966 © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos.

Initially drawn to their traditional folk music, Josef Koudelka (b. 1939) photographed the nomadic Romani people—or Gypsies—of Czechoslovakia and Romania for nearly ten years. Most of the photographs in his seminal 1975 book Gypsies were taken in Eastern Slovakia between 1962 and 1968. In his sensitive study of these communities,… read more 

October 8, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Photography

In the Galleries: Robert Capa

"France. Normandy. Landing of the American troops on Omaha Beach." 1944 © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos

Robert Capa (1913–1954), proclaimed “The Greatest War Photographer in the World” by the Picture Post in 1938, famously created some of the only surviving photographs of the Allied Invasion of Normandy in 1944. When his rolls of film arrived for development at the Life magazine office in London, a darkroom… read more 

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