Also in Pistoia an exhibition on Magnum photographers

On Friday, May 25 at 4:30 p.m., the photo exhibition “Where Ideas Are Born. Places and Faces of Thought in Magnum Photos,” which will be on display until July 1 in the Frescoed Rooms of Pistoia’s Palazzo Comunale. The exhibition, consisting of 40 photographs, will be dedicated to Magnum Photos, the most famous photo agency in history, founded by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, David Seymour and William Vandivert in New York on May 22, 1947. This agency, with its offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, today brings together sixty of the best independent international photographers, continuing to produce important reportage on wars, catastrophes or social events, emphasizing, with personal and original interpretations, even aspects of society ignored by traditional journalism.

The exhibition allows us to enter the studio of artists, writers, architects, filmmakers, musicians and observe the place where not only ideas are born, but where they also find the right tools to become tangible. Since its inception, the Magnum Photos agency has collected reportages on the leading intellectuals of the 20th century, thus portraying the personalities, places and behaviors that stimulated some of the most relevant ideas in the history of our culture. In the exhibition we can thus discover, among others, the studies of Francis Bacon, Constantin Brancusi, Giorgio De Chirico, Albert Einstein, Alberto Giacometti, Ernest Hemingway, Frida Kahlo, Primo Levi, Giorgio Morandi and Pablo Picasso, portrayed through the eyes of twenty of the most important Magnum photographers, including Werner Bischof, René Burri, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Herbert List, Inge Morath, Paolo Pellegrin, and Ferdinando Scianna.

“In their shots, Magnum’s photographers show us archives of ideas that, like dust, lie deposited all over books, furniture and working tools. To photograph a studio is to stop these ideas while they are still swirling in the air, thus allowing us to know the invisible processes of these minds,” say the curators, Giulia Cogoli and Davide Daninos.

The exhibition is produced with Magnum Photos itself and Contrasto on the occasion of the “Pistoia - Dialogues on Man” festival.
Hours: May 25 to 27 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., May 28 to July 1: Monday - Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Free admission.
For all information you can visit www.dialoghisulluomo.it.

Image: Herbert List, Pablo Picasso at his studio, 7 Rue des Grands Augustins, Paris, France, 1948. © Herbert List/Magnum Photos

Also in Pistoia an exhibition on Magnum photographers

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