Magnum Photos celebrates its 65th anniversary in Arles. This is the occasion for the audience to welcome new nominees and to listen to legendary photographers telling stories about their beginnings. This is also a way for the agency to reveal some of its treasures, including much more than photographs. The Magnum Foundation, established in 2007, works on the preservation of this archive. The institution is a main actor of the photography field and is dedicated to support independent documentary production and preserve the history of past documentary practice through its four principle programs: Education, Awards and Grants, Legacy and BeSeen.
In 2009, the Foundation established MagnumTime, as part of its commitment to capture and preserve stories behind the collective visual documentation of history since WWII as outlined under its Legacy program. MagnumTime is a collective history effort to capture and preserve the stories of the Magnum Photos agency since it was founded in 1947.
To date, MT team has produced 80 video interviews with an extensive and diverse international community surrounding Magnum Photos, covering a range of subjects on photojournalism and photography at large. Throughout the interview process, MagnumTime project, which originally began as an idea to create a collection of stories about the Magnum archive, became a resource of knowledge about photojournalism, the human condition, historical events and culture. The interviews completed collectively reveal not only the making of some of the most well-known imagery of the 20th century, but also the transitions and transformations the photographic practice has undergone over the years, presenting a unique resource for general public, researchers, historians as well as the younger generation of photographers.
Supplementary to the production of interviews, MagnumTime team began collecting previously produced audio and video interviews with member photographers, movies about the agency and its photographers, copies of journals, letters, tear sheets and other visual documents to map the full life of an image, from its creation to its publication and preservation to supplement its efforts to create a comprehensive experience for the viewers.
In the past three years of gathering this audio, visual archives, MagnumTime collaborated with a small group of researchers internationally to both review the level of contribution to the field of photography at large and to be of service as a resource for independent researchers.
Today, this extensive archive opens itself to the general public globally through a two weeks screening program featured at Cinema des Rencontres, “On the Move – Magnum”. The 55 films and videos featured, taken in the collection of both the agency and the foundation, represents a wide range of approach to filmmaking as has been explored by some of the most well known photographers of our time.
Bringing together various works of film, video, as well as Magnum’s online multimedia essays, the program is a remarkable reflection on the relationship between photography and film, as it is an unusual approach to epitomize the subject matters that have intrigued Magnum’s photographers over time.
Marco Bischof and MagnumTime team
July 4th
“Theater of War” (2011), by Moises Saman
“Pictures from a Revolution” (1991), by Susan Meiselas, Alfred Guzzetti, Richard P. Rogers
July 5th
“Capitolio” (2008), by Chris Anderson
“Caribbean Passages” (2008), by Alex Majoli
“Bar Centre des Autocars” (2008), by Patrick Zachmann
July 6th
“In the Beginning” (2010), by Magnum Photographers and Magnum in Motion
“Generation X” (2012), by Magnum Photographers and Magnum in Motion
“Eve Arnold, Memoriam” (2012), by Magnum Photographers and Magnum in Motion
“Underway – Werner Bischof Photographer 51/52” (1987), by Marco Bischof and René Baumann
July 7th
“ WARS –Part 1” (2008), by Philip Jones Griffiths
“WARS –Part 2” (2008), by Chris Anderson
“2nd Tour, I hope I don’t Die” (2010), by Peter van Agtmael
“DGI#29” (2011), by Paul Fusco
“Indecisive Moments” (2007), by Larry Towel
July 8th
“ What has happened to the American Indians” (1971), by Martine Franck
“Time of Change” (1968), by Bruce Davidson
“America” (1968), by Philip Gittelman and Charles Harbutt
“Getting Out” (1992), by Eli Reed
“ Wakes” (2008), by Gilles Peress
“Foreclosures, Fresno” (2011), by Bruce Gilden
“Foreclosures, Las Vegas & Reno” (2012), by Bruce Gilden
July 9th
“The Shipping Forecast”, by Mark Power
“Think of England” (1999), by Martin Parr
“Teddy Grey’s Sweet Factory”, by Martin Parr
July 10th
“Libera Me” (2010), by Alex Majoli
“Pleine Mer”, by Jean Gaumy
“Les Années Déclic” (1983), by Raymond Depardon
July 11th
“Escape From the North Korea” (2011), by Chien-Chi Chang
“Burma, Land of Shadows” (2011), by Chien-Chi Chang
”Tsunami Streetwalk 1, Kesennuma” (2012), by Chris Steele-Perkins
“Tsunami Streetwalk 2, Kamaishi” (2012), by Chris Steele-Perkins
“Awakening” (2011), by Dominic Nahr
“Cambodian Odyssey” (1996), by Philip Jones Griffiths
July 12th
“Personal Best” (2008), by Elliott Erwitt
“La Mémoire de Mon Père” (1996-1997), by Patrick Zachmann
“Watch the Birdie”, (1963), by Ken Russell
July 13th
“Georgian Spring” (2009), by Gueorgui Pinkhassov
“Satellites “ (2008), by Jonas Bendiksen
“Caucasus” (2011), by Thomas Dworzak
“The Train” (2011), by Donovan Wylie
July 14th
“A Georgian Diary” (2008), by Thomas Dworzak
“On the U.S. Nuclear Highway” (1992), by René Burri
“Chernobyl” (2011), by Paul Fusco
“The Russian Prison”, by Gueorgui Pinkhassov
“Sous Marin – Part 5” (2006), by Jean Gaumy
July 15th
“ Istanbul: City of Hundred Names” (2008), by Alex Webb
“Iranian Memoir” (2010), by Paolo Pellegrin
“Behind the Veil” (1969), by Eve Arnold
July 16th
“Niagara” (2008), by Alec Soth
“AKA ANA” (2006), by Antoine D’Agata
“Video Diary” (2008), by Tim Hetherington
“Video Diaries: Dying for Publicity” (1993), by Chris Steele-Perkins
July 17th
“Personalities (2009), by Eve Arnold
“Rumble in the Jungle” (2012), by Abbas
“Picnic with Sergey” (2011), by Bruce Gilden
“Waiting for Madonna” (1992), by Peter Marlow
“Where have you been, Jimmy Dean?” (1992), by Dennis Stock
“Misery Loves Company” (1992), by Bruce Gilden
