Magnum Festival ´07

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May 25

Wodaabe - Herdsmen Of The Sun

(1989) Primping and parading before the opposite sex; just another beauty pageant - except this time it's the men doing it - for a nomadic tribe in the Sahara that consider themselves the most beautiful people on earth.

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May 25

Echos From A Somber Empire

(1990) In the Central African Republic, journalist Michael Goldsmith (a former prisoner and torturee) questions a wife and some of the 50 odd children of ex-"emperor" (self-proclaimed) Jean-Bédel Bokassa and tours his former HQ, with archive footage of the blood-soaked 13-year reign intercut. (Herzog himself was briefly Bokassa's prisoner.)

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May 25 - August 31

David Hurn - Here There and Everywhere

The Morrison Hotel Gallery will feature some of the most iconic photographs ever taken of the Beatles. This special exhibition includes exclusive, never-before-seen prints and highlights the works of Magnum's David Hurn together with legendary rock 'n' roll photographers Jim Marshall, Roland Scherman and Robert Whitaker.

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May 10 - September 9

Chim: Photographs by David Seymour

David Seymour, known professionally as "Chim," was a co-founder of Magnum Photos. The exhibition includes iconic photographs from his UN commissions, a series titled "Orphans of the Greek War," and stunning, little-seen photographs of women munitions factory workers during the Spanish Civil War.

Cocktail Reception: June 22, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

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May 3 - July 1

Trent Parke - Minutes to Midnight

"The Fate of the world's largest island hangs in the balance..." The exhibition, the result of Trent Parke's two-year road trip around Australia, is a bold fusion of documentary traditions and a radical contemporary imagination. Minutes to Midnight is an intense and darkly beautiful vision of Australia - one man's attempt to find his place within a country vastly different from the one in which he grew up.

Artist Reception: June 10, 2pm - 5pm

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May 4 - June 16

Leonard Freed - A Memorial Retrospective

Leonard Freed, 1929 - 2006, is regarded as one of our country's finest photojournalists. Freed began taking photographs in his twenties while in the Netherlands and became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1972. In Freed's words, "For me, photography has a lot to do with curiosity and wonderment. It's getting excited about little things... It's being a child in a child's world while wandering through it as the adult that we are."

Opening Reception: May 3, 6pm - 8pm

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May 17 - August 2

Bruce Davidson - Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-65

In 1961 Bruce Davidson joined a group of Freedom Riders, marking the beginning of his exploration into the heart of the Civil Rights Movement. His journey later included an early Malcolm X rally in Harlem, steel workers in Chicago, a Ku Klux Klan cross burning near Atlanta, migrant farm camps in South Carolina, protest demonstrations in Birmingham, and the heroic Selma march that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Davidson's lyrical images are both poignant and profound as they describe the prevailing mood during the Civil Rights era.

Opening Reception: May 17, 6pm - 8pm
Artist Lecture: May 22, 6:30pm

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May 21 - June 3

Bruce Davidson - Central Park

The legendary Bruce Davidson has challenged himself in a remarkable new way, taking on the visual and metaphorical scope of Central Park. Davidson's photographic approach to the park's wildlife - human and otherwise - varies in format and in emotional quality. Always compassionate, often idiosyncratic, this work reveals a sublime and at times transcendent vision.

Bruce Davidson is the recipient of the National Arts Club 2007 Gold Medal.

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May 15 - June 9

Group Show - Documenting Personal Vision

Curated by Marilyn Stevenson

Featured Artists: Chana Benjamin, Irit Saidoff Bishburg, Joseph de Paul, Mary Durkee, Fritz Erismann, Janet Glazer, Lauri Levy, Laurie Foster McCoy, Myra Nissim, Maurice Rosenblum, Marilyn Stevenson, Mia Wisnoski

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Group Show - Documenting Personal Vision

"Wilfred Zogbaum 1" Green River Cemetery Series. Copyright Marilyn Stevenson

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May 3 - June 30

Micha Bar-Am

Micha Bar-Am has been Israel's preeminent photojournalist since 1956. The exhibition, featuring images from the 1950s through the 1990s, includes coverage of the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, as well as portraits of politicians and heroes, revealing the breadth of Bar-Am's career and his commitment to capturing the complexity of Israeli life.

Opening Reception: May 3, 6pm - 8pm

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May 3 - June 30

Thomas Dworzak - M*A*S*H

The 1970s television series M*A*S*H followed a hapless US medical corps stationed in the Korean War. Today, as the US continues to fight in Iraq, doctors, nurses, and medics are working on the front lines to keep their casualties down. Thomas Dworzak was with them - embedded with the 44th Medcoms 50th and 150th Medical Companies in Iraq over several periods in 2005.

Artist Reception: June 15, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

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Through June 23

Astrid Korntheuer - Glor/Loh

The otherwise really very 'nice' nature, as we repeatedly believe, becomes in Astrid Korntheuer's photographs an impassable wall which repels you all the more you engage in her game of color, light and shadow.

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