woensdag, november 09, 2005
Frontline Photos
A permanent exhibition of historic war photographs, taken by the leading photojournalists of the past century, opens on Armistice Day, 11 November 2005, at the Frontline Club in Paddington, London.
The pictures were selected by John G. Morris, who was the picture editor for Life magazine in London on D-Day, June 6, 1944. There are prints from six of the surviving Robert Capa negatives of the landing on Omaha Beach. Morris was also, working for Magnum, Capa’s editor on May 25, 1954, the day Capa died in Indochina. The exhibition includes prints by Magnum photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Jones Griffiths, Marc Riboud and George Rodger, and by Larry Burrows, who worked in Life’s London darkroom on D-Day and died in covering the war in Laos; his son will come for the launch.
There are classic photos by Cecil Beaton, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Yevgheni Khaldei, Joe Rosenthal, George Silk, W. Eugene Smith and Yosuke Yamahata. Don McCullin has photos from three wars and David Turnley has photos from the Gulf war and from civil war in South Africa. There will be space for revolving shows on current subjects. The first is a group of photos by Gary Knight on the war in Iraq; there is also a print of the devastation in Grozny, Chechnya, by Heidi Bradner.
11 November 2005:
10.30 Exhibition opens
11.30 Press conference
16.00 Exhibition open to public until 18.00
18.30 Refreshments
19.30 Discussion: "Is anyone taking any notice?” (Don McCullin, 1971)
Speakers: Christiane Amanpour, John G Morris
Moderator: Brian Hanrahan, Diplomatic Editor, BBC
The pictures were selected by John G. Morris, who was the picture editor for Life magazine in London on D-Day, June 6, 1944. There are prints from six of the surviving Robert Capa negatives of the landing on Omaha Beach. Morris was also, working for Magnum, Capa’s editor on May 25, 1954, the day Capa died in Indochina. The exhibition includes prints by Magnum photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Jones Griffiths, Marc Riboud and George Rodger, and by Larry Burrows, who worked in Life’s London darkroom on D-Day and died in covering the war in Laos; his son will come for the launch.
There are classic photos by Cecil Beaton, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Yevgheni Khaldei, Joe Rosenthal, George Silk, W. Eugene Smith and Yosuke Yamahata. Don McCullin has photos from three wars and David Turnley has photos from the Gulf war and from civil war in South Africa. There will be space for revolving shows on current subjects. The first is a group of photos by Gary Knight on the war in Iraq; there is also a print of the devastation in Grozny, Chechnya, by Heidi Bradner.
11 November 2005:
10.30 Exhibition opens
11.30 Press conference
16.00 Exhibition open to public until 18.00
18.30 Refreshments
19.30 Discussion: "Is anyone taking any notice?” (Don McCullin, 1971)
Speakers: Christiane Amanpour, John G Morris
Moderator: Brian Hanrahan, Diplomatic Editor, BBC
# posted by Jan-Edward : 23:35
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