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© Paolo Pellegrin, Moments after an Israeli air strike destroyed several buildings in Dahia. Beirut. Lebanon, August 2006

Throughout that period MAGNUM never ceased to supply photographs that have become part of the world’s collective memory – pictures of landmark events like the Russian army’s invasion of Prague in 1968 and the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. The exhibition uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of MAGNUM year by year and gives visitors the opportunity to view work by 83 photographers, such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carl de Keyzer, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas and Leonard Freed.

MAGNUM was established in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour. They were convinced that photography was the best medium with which to document world events and raise public awareness. And they succeeded – the way MAGNUM photographers have recorded the background to the news has proved vital to the public’s perception of events. From the start, the agency was distinguished by its complete independence: the choice and length of reportage, editing control and intellectual property rights were all kept in the agency’s own hands, guaranteeing photographers the status of auteurs. Attracted by the energy and artistic ethics of its founders, other photographers soon began to join the new agency, eventually making it one of the most original and prestigious creative co-operatives in the world.

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Allora & Calzadilla, Returning a Sound, 2003 (Videostill)

'Never Mind That Noise You Heard' is the first ever solo exhibition in the Netherlands by artist duo Jennifer Allora (b. 1974, US) and Guillermo Calzadilla (b. 1971, Cuba).

Eric Vloeimans en Angelo Verploegen will play the trumpet and singers of Opera Studio Nederland will sing opera fragments of speeches by key actors in the global theatre of recent political history: from Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama, to George Bush and Saddam Hussein.

Never Mind That Noise You Heard will provide an opportunity to see (and hear!) recent installations and videos that consider the continuum between noise and music as a productive measure and potentially rich tool through which cultural, social, and political relationships can be gauged and challenged. Many works in the exhibition are the outcome of Allora and Calzadilla´s investigations into militarism, war, and the inscriptions of power encoded in and through sound.



Sediments Sentiments (Figures of Speech) (2007)

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izvor: Stedelijk Museum CS

Post je objavljen 07.02.2008. u 22:39 sati.