{"id":88066,"date":"2025-08-23T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/88066\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:39:25","slug":"magnum-photos-agencys-first-exhibition-lost-for-a-half-century-to-make-its-north-american-debut-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/88066\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnum Photos agency\u2019s first exhibition, lost for a half-century, to make its North American debut – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Downtown Toronto\u2019s Image Centre is digging deep for a restaging of Magnum\u2019s First<\/a>, the celebrated picture agency\u2019s long-forgotten inaugural exhibition. It was shown at several Austrian venues in 1955-56 but never seen on this side of the Atlantic\u2014until now.<\/p>\n

On display will be 83 of the show\u2019s original gelatin-silver prints. Magnum\u2019s First features works by many of the 20th century\u2019s most celebrated photojournalists\u2014among them Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, who co-founded Magnum in 1947 with George Rodger and David \u201cChim\u201d Seymour. Other photographers in the show include Werner Bischof, Inge Morath, Ernst Haas, Marc Riboud, Jean Marquis and Erich Lessing.<\/p>\n

The exhibition\u2019s materials had laid dormant for a half-century in the basement of the Institut Fran\u00e7ais in Innsbruck, Austria, before being rediscovered in 2006. Included were a poster and hanging instructions for the show. The installation, originally titled Gesicht der Zeit (face of time), will be meticulously reconstructed for its Toronto debut.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proposing a display respectful to the original,\u201d says Ga\u00eblle Morel, the Image Centre\u2019s curator. \u201cWe are also including the original wooden crates, labels and introductory text.\u201d She adds that there will be a new text included to \u201ccontextualise the exhibition and tell the story of the discovery. The exhibition is a nice opportunity to show how Magnum Photos decided to turn into a cultural institution in the 1950s with books and exhibitions; not just focusing on the illustrated press but expanding its activities beyond printed journalistic media.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Inge Morath\u2019s Eveleigh Nash at Buckingham Palace Mall, London, Great Britain (1953) \u00a9 Inge Morath\/Magnum Photos<\/p>\n

Morel says that while she does not like to pick favourites, \u201cMorath\u2019s series on London shows a lot of wit and humour, while at the same time insisting on the rich-and-poor class divide. I find it very smart and well executed.\u201d Included in the show are Morath\u2019s Lloyds Bank and Eveleigh Nash at Buckingham Palace Mall (both 1953).<\/p>\n

At the Image Centre, the rediscovered Magnum\u2019s First will run concurrently with an exhibition devoted to one of Magnum\u2019s founders. Chim\u2019s Children of Europe<\/a> will chronicle Seymour\u2019s 1949 project, commissioned by Unesco, documenting the dire living conditions of young people in postwar Europe.<\/p>\n

The Image Centre is a photography and art museum, part of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). It opened in 2012 and occupies an old warehouse, since remodelled, on the university\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n

Magnum\u2019s First<\/a>, 10 September-13 December and 14 January 2026-4 April 2026, The Image Centre, TorontoChim\u2019s Children of Europe<\/a>, 10 September-13 December and 14 January 2026-4 April 2026, The Image Centre, Toronto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downtown Toronto\u2019s Image Centre is digging deep for a restaging of Magnum\u2019s First, the celebrated picture agency\u2019s long-forgotten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,626,1120,96,10993,44188,6487,5840,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-88066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-exhibitions","15":"tag-magnum","16":"tag-photography","17":"tag-toronto","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}