Magnum Manifesto

Provocative images that record our history

Header image: Photographer Jonas Bendiksen, Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft, Altai Territory, Russia, 2000. Landing image: Photograph by Christina Garcia Rodero, 1908 Holy Week.

BY: Claire Connors

In 1947, four photographers, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour formed The Magnum Manifesto, a collective of the most influential artists of the time. In honor of its 70th anniversary, The International Center of Photography presents Magnum Manifesto, featuring group and individual projects organized into three parts.

Part l: 1947-1968 “Human Rights and Wrongs” views the Magnum archive through a humanist lens. A centerpiece is Paul Fusco’s series, RFK Funeral Train.

Part ll: 1969-1989 “An Inventory of Difference” shows a world fragmenting, with a focus on subcultures, minorities, and outsiders, including pieces by Danny Lyon and Susan Meiselas.

Part lll: 1990-2017 “Stories about Endings” capturing images of a world in flux and under threat, from Thomas Dworzak’s photographs of the Taliban, to the very current pictures by Alessandra Sanguinetti’s of last year’s Nice terrorist attacks.

On view through September 3rd at ICP Museum, 250 Bowery, New York, NY.