June 3

Magnum and the Future of Photojournalism

Several active members of the Magnum agency will join Mark Whitaker, former editor of Newsweek, onstage at the Walter Reade for a free panel discussion about the future of photojournalism.

Panel Discussion: June 3, 2pm

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June 2 - June 3

The Train / The Two Faces of China

For several months, Donovan Wylie traveled across Russia with a group of Orthodox priests who were hoping to solidify the faith of believers that might have lapsed during communism, or might have succumbed to Protestant evangelical missionaries. Wylie encounters some extraordinary personalities both on and off the train while creating a portrait of a country and a culture moving in several different directions simultaneously.

Photographer René Burri arrived in China in the mid-60s to make a film about the struggle between the culture's traditional values and the demands of the Marxist state. By the end of his shoot, the Cultural Revolution was in full sway, answering the question of tradition vs. modernity with an often bloody overhaul of a society as radical as the world had ever seen. A true document of an extraordinary - and extraordinarily tense - moment in modern Chinese history.

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June 2 - June 3

Misery Loves Company: The Life and Death of Bruce Gilden / My Father's Memory by Patrick Zackmann

The idea of "street photography," taking one's camera out into the world and shooting whatever catches one's attention, took on a special twist in the work of Bruce Gilden. His photographs are often records of his confrontations with his subjects, and the tension of the moment is as much a part of the final product as the light and shadows. Gideon Gold caught up with the wisecracking Gilden - described as a Damon Runyon of photographers - and provided a platform for Gilden to talk about his life, work, and ideas about photography.

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June 3 - June 4

Pictures from a Revolution

"[Meiselas'] film is a frank and startling meditation on the contradictions of the photographer's historical record and the recent past."--Leslie Camhi, Village Voice

No one captured more powerfully the suffering, sacrifice and, finally, the celebration that accompanied the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua than Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas. A decade later, Meiselas returned to Nicaragua to track down the people in her photographs - guerrillas, somocistas, simple bystanders. The result is a provocative study of a revolution and its aftermath, as well as a frank inquiry into the perils of recording history as it happens.

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June 3

Burden Of Dreams / Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

(1982, LES BLANK) Cast members drop like flies, a prop ship is trapped in rapids, director makes impossible demands; riveting account of crazed - even for Herzog - shooting of Fitzcarraldo. "Suggests Herzog's own documentaries about visionaries...at once funny and... somewhat frightening." - Dave Kehr. Plus Blank's WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS SHOE (1979) The director consumes footwear after losing a bet that Errol Morris's GATES OF HEAVEN would never be finished.

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June 3

Werner PICK - Spend it All / A Well Spent Life

(Both 1971, Les Blank) SPEND IT ALL: Lives and music of the Louisiana Cajuns, with a local's self-tooth-extraction a memorable highlight. In A WELL SPENT LIFE, septugenarian Mance Lipscomb, legendary blues guitarist, looks back on a 60-year marriage and Texas sharecropping. Kurt Vonnegut's favorite movie.

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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 31 - July 1

David Alan Harvey - Living Proof

In 2005 David Alan Harvey began photographing local emcees in the Bronx River Projects as part of an exploration into hip hop. 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. It is this phenomenon that Harvey has captured - from Hollywood celebs to the local cultures of Spain, France, Gambia, Senegal, South Korea, and Thailand.

Artist Reception: June 14, 7pm - 10pm

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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 31 - June 24

David Sokosh - Gay 90's

Photographs created between 1990 and 2000, documenting Gay Pride celebrations in New York.

Opening Reception: May 31, 6pm - 8pm

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