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The Magnum Digest: September 23, 2018

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Old and New: Working With and Responding to the Photographic Archive

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Ferdinando Scianna’s Fashion Iconography

Ferdinando Scianna

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Wayne Miller: A Human Touch

Wayne Miller

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Old and New: Working With and Responding to the Photographic Archive

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Ferdinando Scianna’s Fashion Iconography

Ferdinando Scianna

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Wayne Miller: A Human Touch

Wayne Miller

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Approximate Joy: How Christopher Anderson’s imagined future shaped a vision of the present

Christopher Anderson

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Revisiting Chien-Chi Chang’s Project, Myanmar, the Price of Isolation

Chien-Chi Chang

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Rafal Milach Uses Visual Metaphors to Deconstruct the System

Rafal Milach

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Behind the Image: Patrick Zachmann’s Inquest of Identity

Patrick Zachmann

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Koudelka’s Beirut: The Vision of What Cannot Be Seen

Josef Koudelka

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Gentlemen’s Club Bangkok

Cristina de Middel

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Back to School

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Internat

Carolyn Drake

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The Mask Series: Inge Morath & Saul Steinberg

Inge Morath

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In Her Work Lua Ribeira Challenges Societal Norms and Her Own Preconceptions

Lua Ribeira

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Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street: Harlem, 50 Years On

Bruce Davidson

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Exploring Notting Hill Carnival Through the People That Make it Happen

Alex Majoli
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Magnum Nominee Sim Chi Yin Waited Years to be Able to Commit to Photography

Sim Chi Yin

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Tipping Point: The 50th Anniversary of the 1968 Democratic National Convention Riots in Chicago

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Darkness in The Sunshine State

Alex Webb

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Werner Bischof: The Boy from Roermond

Werner Bischof

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The Magnum Summer Reading List, 2018

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“I can work with no talent, I can’t work with no commitment”

Stuart Franklin

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“The Juice Was Definitely Flowing Differently”, Eli Reed on Black Spring Break

Eli Reed

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Brexit Britain: The Perfect Storm Facing British Farmers

Martin Parr

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Bruce Gilden’s Coney Island

Bruce Gilden

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Packed Lunches, Fly Fishing, and Cherry Pickers: Magnum Photographers Document an Epic Construction Project

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Elliott Erwitt’s America

Elliott Erwitt

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Myanmar’s Rocky Path to Democracy

Chris Steele-Perkins

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Fishing for a Future After Brexit

Martin Parr

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Andy Warhol and the Camera

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Revisiting Martin Parr’s Last Resort

Martin Parr

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Three Graduates Reflect on Life After Photographic Education

Patrick Zachmann

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800 Years of Art in Salisbury Cathedral

Ian Berry

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The Power and Impact of Ernest Cole’s Rediscovered Archive

Ernest Cole

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Custodians of a Desire: Herbert List’s Couples at the Beach

Herbert List

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The Passing of Time: Alessandra Sanguinetti Goes Home

Alessandra Sanguinetti

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The Korean War: Behind the Battlefront

Werner Bischof

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Life According to Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt

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Space Ruins

Rene Burri

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Philadelphia’s ‘Badlands’: At the Heart of the Opioid Epidemic

Jérôme Sessini

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America at the Beach: A Color Study

Constantine Manos

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The Beat Scene: Burt Glinn’s Vivid Portrait of a Subculture

Burt Glinn

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At Home in Japan’s Archipelago

Hiroji Kubota

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In Pictures: Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom

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Recuperation and Recreation in Soviet Russia: Holidaying Behind the Iron Curtain

Peter Marlow

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Invisible Cities: Alex Majoli Leads Students to Discover Milan

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The 75th Anniversary of Operation Husky: the Allied Invasion of Sicily

Robert Capa

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Sevla

Paolo Pellegrin

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Midnight at the Crossroads

Cristina de Middel

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Richard Kalvar: Photo Poche

Richard Kalvar

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70 Years of the British National Health Service

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Depardon in America

Raymond Depardon

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René Burri: Imaginary Pyramids

Rene Burri

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Giacometti in His Studio

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The Real in the Unreal

Cristina de Middel

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A Completely True Work of Fiction: Jim Goldberg’s Raised By Wolves

Jim Goldberg

Expert Photographic Advice from Magnum

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Photography and Cinema

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Breaking Out of the Archive Trap

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Photographing the Night

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Magnum Collection Poster: Elliott Erwitt’s America — California, USA. 1955.

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Chien-Chi Chang

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Alessandra Sanguinetti

A Portrait of Russia

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Partying in Post-Soviet Moscow

Gueorgui Pinkhassov

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Portrait of the USSR: Homo Sovieticus

Carl De Keyzer

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Life by the Sea • 9 Stories

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“The Juice Was Definitely Flowing Differently”, Eli Reed on Black Spring Break

Eli Reed

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Bruce Gilden’s Coney Island

Bruce Gilden

On The Road • 8 Stories

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Highway Rest Stops

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The Road to Reno

Inge Morath

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Magnum Retold: Temples of Stone

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They Defend our Freedoms

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Tunisia’s Youth Champion

Newsha Tavakolian

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Jérôme Sessini

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New Americans

Susan Meiselas

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Behind the Image: Alec Soth’s Two Towels

Alec Soth

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Martin Parr: Welcome to Belfast

Martin Parr

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Smethwick: A Town in England

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Anthropocene • 12 Stories

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Paradise Lost

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Future Proofing Life on Earth

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Consequences of War • 14 Stories

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Conflicts and Consequences

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The Tet Offensive: The Battle for Vietnam’s Cities

Philip Jones Griffiths

Turkey Transformed • 10 Stories

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Living in Limbo: How Refugees Are Reshaping Turkey

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Turkey’s Religious Journey

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The War in Iraq • 13 Stories

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Embedding in Iraq

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Vantage Point: Panoramics of a War-Torn Iraq

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A Portrait of America • 32 Stories

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American Folk Historian

Danny Lyon

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Depardon in America

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In Pictures: Trump’s Road to the White House

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The Day Trump Won

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Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street: Harlem, 50 Years On

Bruce Davidson

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Koudelka’s Beirut: The Vision of What Cannot Be Seen

Josef Koudelka

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The Mask Series: Inge Morath & Saul Steinberg

Inge Morath

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The Magnum Digest: September 23, 2018

Theory & Practice

Old and New: Working With and Responding to the Photographic Archive

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Ferdinando Scianna’s Fashion Iconography

Ferdinando Scianna

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Wayne Miller: A Human Touch

Wayne Miller

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Revisiting Chien-Chi Chang’s Project, Myanmar, the Price of Isolation

Chien-Chi Chang

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Ferdinando Scianna Retrospective in Northern Italy

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Sim Chi Yin: UnAuthorised Medium

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Approximate Joy: How Christopher Anderson’s imagined future shaped a vision of the present

Christopher Anderson

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The Magnum Digest: September 14, 2018

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Rafal Milach Uses Visual Metaphors to Deconstruct the System

Rafal Milach

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Behind the Image: Patrick Zachmann’s Inquest of Identity

Patrick Zachmann

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Koudelka’s Beirut: The Vision of What Cannot Be Seen

Josef Koudelka

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Gentlemen’s Club Bangkok

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The Magnum Digest: September 7, 2018

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Internat

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