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THE MAGNUM STORY
Series: Magnum in Motion: Photographers and the Moving Image [May 30 – Jun 4 2007]
Director: Patricia Wheatley and Rosemary Bowen-Jones, Country: United Kingdom, Release: 1989, Runtime: 192

In three parts, The Magnum Story offers an intimate look at the Magnum Group, unquestionably the most famous photographic agency in the world.

The Magnum Story I: Decisive Moments

Part one focuses on Magnum’s four founders—Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour—from their work in the 1930s and the war to the early years of the agency. A time in which photojournalism was having a greater impact on the public than ever before, the late ‘40s and ‘50s saw the agency defining its mission while expanding to include many emerging talents; Part one traces the agency’s growing pains, as it struggled to establish itself critically and financially in a highly competitive market.

The Magnum Story II: The Savage Years

Part two of this history of Magnum focuses on the ‘60s, a decade whose nearly constant turbulence was ably captured by Magnum photographers. Cornell Capa, Burt Glinn and Elliott Erwitt documented the changes in styles that characterized the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations, while Philip Jones Griffiths and Marc Riboud devoted much of their work to the war in Vietnam. Part two also looks at photographer Eve Arnold’s work and experiences on the set of John Huston’s The Misfits, with Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable.

The Magnum Story III: Close to the Edge

The Magnum Story III: Close to the Edge looks at the group’s fortunes as it moves into the ‘80s, a decade that saw a steep decline in the magazine market and hence in the fortunes of photojournalists. The film examines the inner workings of the group and also follows some Magnum photographers to China to capture the growing student uprising of spring 1989, events that led eventually to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. Stuart Franklin’s extraordinary photograph of a lone Chinese demonstrator facing down a tank remains one of the 20th century’s most haunting images.




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