Magnum Photos is coming up on their 60 year Anniversary.... Powerhouse Books just announced some events surrounding this. Worth checking out.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The powerHouse Arena is proud to announce our participation in
THE MAGNUM FESTIVAL
Celebrating the Art of Documentary
Magnum Photos Celebrates 60 Years of Era-Defining Photographs
Announcing the Formation of The Magnum Foundation
Magnum Photos, the world’s most elite collective of photographers announced today the launch of the The Magnum Festival: Celebrating the Art of Documentary, a month long tribute to documentary in photography, film and journalism. The prestigious agency, credited with taking some of the most iconic imagery of historic events such as the Spanish Civil War, D-Day, The Civil Rights Movement, Tiananmen Square, 9/11 and thousands of others, marked its 60th Anniversary on April 17th, 2007.
The Magnum Festival will take place in New York City throughout the month of June with dozens of activities, exhibitions, public and private events all embracing the documentation of life spanning the globe. “Documentary, in its many forms, creates understanding, appreciation and in many cases mobilize change,” said Magnum’s Managing Director, Mark Lubell. “Whether through pictures, moving images or the written word, documenting the life around us is vital to the preservation of our stories for generations to come.”
In celebration, The powerHouse Arena will host David Alan Harvey: Living Proof from May 31 through July 1 at 37 Main Street, Brooklyn. In 2005, Harvey began photographing local emcees in the Bronx River Projects, home of hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, whose legendary Zulu Nation parties of the 70s inspired a new generation of b-boys and b-girls. It is their descendants that Harvey has captured in Living Proof, a glimpse into hip hop in its many forms.
Hip hop, which first began on the streets of the South Bronx in the early 1970s, has traveled the globe, finding a home in every corner of the planet. Remade by local cultures in their own language and regional style, hip hop’s versatility speaks to its accessibility and universality. The lyrics, the look, and the lifestyle could easily be a cultural anthropologist’s best example—or worst nightmare—of America’s influence and cultural dominance.
Boogie Down thugs Uptown and Ruckus, unsigned artists whose lyrics are presented here, became Harvey’s trusted friends and self-appointed guides, bringing him inside their homes, their families, and their lives. Harvey soon realized that the code of the streets would bring one of three fates: jail, death, or success. And so he traveled from the ‘hood to Hollywood, gaining access to Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Nelly—artists who went through the system and came out kings. Keepin’ it real becomes a little surreal when gold records and semi-automatics mix like gin and tonics.
Going global to document the regional manifestations of a culture a mere three decades in existence, Harvey traveled from Spain, France, and Gambia to Senegal, South Korea, and Thailand, discovering conversations with DAM in East Jerusalem sounded just like the ramble with Uptown and Ruckus. Hip hop, for all its pop-pop-pop, for all it’s and ya don’t stop, for all its rise to the top, has always been about speaking to the guy on the corner and the girl at the club—because skills and styles comes from love.
This exhibition has been printed on the new Z3100 printer with generous donation from HP.
David Alan Harvey discovered photography at an early age and quickly began photographing his family and neighborhood. At twenty Harvey lived with and documented the lives of a black family living in Virginia. These photographs were published in his first book, Tell It Like It. Harvey went on to shoot over forty essays for National Geographic Magazine and publish two additional books. Harvey has been at Magnum Photo since 1993 and lives in New York.
Additional Scheduled Highlights of the Magnum Festival include:
• Werner Herzog Film Forum Series
• Documentary Film series at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater by and about Magnum Photographers
• Magnum Photos Foundation Gala
• Photojournalism Symposium at the New York Public Library
• 19 photo exhibitions throughout New York City
• Magnum Photos Annual General Meeting
Since its inception in 1947, Magnum’s photographers have collectively chronicled the most significant historical and cultural milestones of the past century. Magnum Photos was founded by the forefathers of documentary photography: Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David “Chim” Seymour, and George Rodger.
During the festival, Magnum will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) where members gather to review candidates for membership into the prestigious group. Its members—who include legends such as Bruce Davidson, Elliot Erwitt, Philip Jones Griffiths, Josef Koudelka, Susan Meiselas, Steve McCurry and Martin Parr— will return to the birthplace of Magnum, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), for a private induction of its newest members. To date, the agency has 60 members worldwide.
Magnum Photos will also launch the Magnum Foundation-a 501 (c)3 organization created to providing grants to photographers who will continue to document the world with responsibility, concern, and integrity -- the cornerstones of storytelling in the Magnum style. The Magnum Foundation will work to preserve the historic archive of Magnum Photos for student education and academic research.
For more information about Magnum Festival events, visit www.magnumfestival.org
About Magnum Photos: Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. Acclaimed for powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events and issues. Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, and a network of fifteen sub-agents, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising agencies, television, galleries and museums across the world.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The powerHouse Arena is proud to announce our participation in
THE MAGNUM FESTIVAL
Celebrating the Art of Documentary
Magnum Photos Celebrates 60 Years of Era-Defining Photographs
Announcing the Formation of The Magnum Foundation
Magnum Photos, the world’s most elite collective of photographers announced today the launch of the The Magnum Festival: Celebrating the Art of Documentary, a month long tribute to documentary in photography, film and journalism. The prestigious agency, credited with taking some of the most iconic imagery of historic events such as the Spanish Civil War, D-Day, The Civil Rights Movement, Tiananmen Square, 9/11 and thousands of others, marked its 60th Anniversary on April 17th, 2007.
The Magnum Festival will take place in New York City throughout the month of June with dozens of activities, exhibitions, public and private events all embracing the documentation of life spanning the globe. “Documentary, in its many forms, creates understanding, appreciation and in many cases mobilize change,” said Magnum’s Managing Director, Mark Lubell. “Whether through pictures, moving images or the written word, documenting the life around us is vital to the preservation of our stories for generations to come.”
In celebration, The powerHouse Arena will host David Alan Harvey: Living Proof from May 31 through July 1 at 37 Main Street, Brooklyn. In 2005, Harvey began photographing local emcees in the Bronx River Projects, home of hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, whose legendary Zulu Nation parties of the 70s inspired a new generation of b-boys and b-girls. It is their descendants that Harvey has captured in Living Proof, a glimpse into hip hop in its many forms.
Hip hop, which first began on the streets of the South Bronx in the early 1970s, has traveled the globe, finding a home in every corner of the planet. Remade by local cultures in their own language and regional style, hip hop’s versatility speaks to its accessibility and universality. The lyrics, the look, and the lifestyle could easily be a cultural anthropologist’s best example—or worst nightmare—of America’s influence and cultural dominance.
Boogie Down thugs Uptown and Ruckus, unsigned artists whose lyrics are presented here, became Harvey’s trusted friends and self-appointed guides, bringing him inside their homes, their families, and their lives. Harvey soon realized that the code of the streets would bring one of three fates: jail, death, or success. And so he traveled from the ‘hood to Hollywood, gaining access to Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Nelly—artists who went through the system and came out kings. Keepin’ it real becomes a little surreal when gold records and semi-automatics mix like gin and tonics.
Going global to document the regional manifestations of a culture a mere three decades in existence, Harvey traveled from Spain, France, and Gambia to Senegal, South Korea, and Thailand, discovering conversations with DAM in East Jerusalem sounded just like the ramble with Uptown and Ruckus. Hip hop, for all its pop-pop-pop, for all it’s and ya don’t stop, for all its rise to the top, has always been about speaking to the guy on the corner and the girl at the club—because skills and styles comes from love.
This exhibition has been printed on the new Z3100 printer with generous donation from HP.
David Alan Harvey discovered photography at an early age and quickly began photographing his family and neighborhood. At twenty Harvey lived with and documented the lives of a black family living in Virginia. These photographs were published in his first book, Tell It Like It. Harvey went on to shoot over forty essays for National Geographic Magazine and publish two additional books. Harvey has been at Magnum Photo since 1993 and lives in New York.
Additional Scheduled Highlights of the Magnum Festival include:
• Werner Herzog Film Forum Series
• Documentary Film series at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater by and about Magnum Photographers
• Magnum Photos Foundation Gala
• Photojournalism Symposium at the New York Public Library
• 19 photo exhibitions throughout New York City
• Magnum Photos Annual General Meeting
Since its inception in 1947, Magnum’s photographers have collectively chronicled the most significant historical and cultural milestones of the past century. Magnum Photos was founded by the forefathers of documentary photography: Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David “Chim” Seymour, and George Rodger.
During the festival, Magnum will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) where members gather to review candidates for membership into the prestigious group. Its members—who include legends such as Bruce Davidson, Elliot Erwitt, Philip Jones Griffiths, Josef Koudelka, Susan Meiselas, Steve McCurry and Martin Parr— will return to the birthplace of Magnum, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), for a private induction of its newest members. To date, the agency has 60 members worldwide.
Magnum Photos will also launch the Magnum Foundation-a 501 (c)3 organization created to providing grants to photographers who will continue to document the world with responsibility, concern, and integrity -- the cornerstones of storytelling in the Magnum style. The Magnum Foundation will work to preserve the historic archive of Magnum Photos for student education and academic research.
For more information about Magnum Festival events, visit www.magnumfestival.org
About Magnum Photos: Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. Acclaimed for powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events and issues. Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, and a network of fifteen sub-agents, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising agencies, television, galleries and museums across the world.
