Magnum Photos

Exhibition - Failing Leviathan: Magnum Photographers and Civil War 

Magnum Photographers 

EXHIBITION AT THE NATIONAL CIVIL WAR CENTRE, NEWARK
01 MAY – 05 NOVEMBER 2015

The National Civil War Centre opens its doors with an inaugural exhibition from the iconic photography agency Magnum Photos. Curated by Professor Julian Stallabrass The Failing Leviathan: Magnum Photographers and Civil War will trace episodes of the way in which civil conflict and its photographic depiction have co-evolved.

Thomas Hobbes’ famous image of the state was the Leviathan, a giant that collected and encompassed the strengths of many people to gain a monopoly over violence, and ensure peace for all those who... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. November-December 1936. Watching an air raid over... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. Winter 1936-1937. A building destroyed by Italo-German... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. November-December, 1936. During the Italo-German... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. November-December 1936. Members of the International... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. November-December 1936. Republican soldiers. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Barcelona. August 1936. Republican militiamembers. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. November-December 1936. Members of the International... 

Jerome Sessini 2012

SYRIA. Aleppo. October 20, 2012.
Front line in Bustan Al Bacha.... 
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Jerome Sessini 2012

SYRIA. Aleppo. October 18, 2012.
Shifa hospital. Civilians and... 
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Jerome Sessini 2012

SYRIA. Aleppo. October 19, 2012.
Al Arkub front line. Free Syrian... 
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Jerome Sessini 2013

SYRIA. Aleppo. February 7, 2013. 
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Jerome Sessini 2013

SYRIA. Aleppo. February 9, 2013. 
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Jerome Sessini 2013

SYRIA. Aleppo. February 10, 2013.
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Werner Bischof Estate 1952

SOUTH KOREA. Island of Koje Do. A camp for North Korean prisoners... 

Werner Bischof Estate 1952

SOUTH KOREA. Island of Koje Do. 1952. Internment camp for North... 

Werner Bischof Estate 1952

SOUTH KOREA. Island of Koje Do. North Korean prisoners of war... 

Werner Bischof Estate 1952

SOUTH KOREA. Kaesong. 1952. International Press photographers... 

Werner Bischof Estate 1952

SOUTH KOREA. Koje Do island. U.N. Re-education camp for Chinese... 

Werner Bischof Estate 1952

SOUTH KOREA. Island of Koje Do. U.N. Re-education camp for Chinese... 

Werner Bischof Estate 1952

SOUTH KOREA. Koje Do island. Camp fot North Korean prisoners... 

Ian Berry 1961

AFRICA. Congo. Katanga. Elisabethville. A Swedish UN soldier... 

Ian Berry 1961

AFRICA. Congo. Katanga. Elizabethville. The squalid conditions... 

Ian Berry 1961

AFRICA. Congo. Katanga. Elizabethville. A UN armoured car creates... 

Ian Berry 1961

AFRICA. Congo. Katanga. Elizabethville. A Swedish UN soldier... 

Ian Berry 1961

AFRICA. Congo. Katanga. Elizabethville. An Irish UN soldier... 

Ian Berry 1961

AFRICA. Congo. Katanga. Elizabethville. Swedish UN soldiers... 

David Seymour 1948

GREECE. Ioannina. 1948. At a camp for refugees at Ioannina, the... 

David Seymour 1948

Refugees from the civil war areas. 

David Seymour 1948

Refugees from the civil war areas. 

David Seymour 1948

Refugees from the civil war areas. 

David Seymour 1948

Refugees from the civil war areas. 

David Seymour 1948

GREECE. Refugees from the civil war reading a letter. 1948. 

David Seymour 1948

GREECE. 1948. 

Susan Meiselas 1980

EL SALVADOR. Arcatao, Chalatenango province. 1980. "Mano blanca,"... 

Susan Meiselas 1980

EL SALVADOR. 1980. Waiting for the bus on the road to La Libertad.... 

Susan Meiselas 1982

El SALVADOR. 1982. Guerilla dragged through the street of Cuscatancingo.
(EL... 

Susan Meiselas 1981

EL SALVADOR. 1981. An anonymous execution on the road to Usulután.... 

Susan Meiselas 1980

EL SALVADOR. 1980. Soldiers search bus passengers along the Northern... 

Susan Meiselas 1979

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 1979. 

Susan Meiselas 1983

EL SALVADOR. Sonsonate. 1983. Survival training of US - trained... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1988

VIETNAM. Mrs. Nguyen Thi Lop, 56, the widow of Nguyen Van Lem... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 2004

VIETNAM. Ha Noi. Shop selling children's toys. 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1980

VIETNAM. Villagers return to their devastated land in the Mekong... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1980

VIETNAM. During the war the lack of doctors and specialized surgical... 

Moises Saman 2011

LIBYA. Zawiyah. 2011. A Qaddafi supporter holds a portrait of... 
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