Magna Brava
April 9 through May 7, 2005
Opening
reception Saturday April 9, 2-5 PM
We are pleased to present our second group
exhibition featuring work by members of the venerable Magnum Photo Agency. Magna Brava will celebrate the contribution
of women photographers to the most respected photojournalist collective in the
world, which has always been a male-dominated group in a traditionally
male-dominated industry.
Female photographers have consistently
provided a different perspective to that which is most commonly seen in the
realm of photojournalism. Our exhibition will consist of photographs by: Eve
Arnold (American, b. 1913), whose presence on the film set of The Misfits
in Nevada in 1955 culminated in some of the most memorable photographs ever
taken of Marilyn Monroe; Martine Franck (American/British), who throughout her
career has trained her lens on people from different backgrounds and cultures
always to create environmental portraits that reveal the sitter’s humanity;
Maya Goded (born Mexico City, Mexico, 1970), who has focused much of her work on
subjects relating to women and gender issues; Susan Meiselas (American, b.
1948), whose project Carnival Strippers (1972-1975) documented the daily
lives of young strippers in small-town carnivals in the Eastern USA; Inge
Morath (b. Graz, Austria; 1923-2002), whose portraits of famous women will
grace our walls; and Lise Sarfati (French, b. 1958), whose images will be drawn
from a recent body of work; and Marilyn Silverstone (American, b. London;
1929-1999), whose fascination with eastern culture led her to spend the latter
40 years of her life in India and Nepal, which she documented with an insider’s
eye.
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