From the day it was created in 1947, the Magnum Photos agency has represented some of the most famous names in photography, whose pictures have come to define their times. But Magnum’s work also includes some surprising images – pictures of cinema.
For more than 70 years, the photojournalists of Magnum have observed the world of cinema as they would any conflict, social issue or country on the map. It was out of love for the actress Ingrid Bergman that Robert Capa took Magnum’s very first photo of cinema, on the set of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946), inaugurating the relationship between the agency and the world of films.
Using original, unseen stories and interviews, Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum retraces this relationship over 70 years. It is a confrontation of two seemingly opposite worlds – fiction and reality – and a unique look behind the scenes of cinema in the making.
Rediscover cinema through a new lens with this look at some of the most recognizable images from the greatest photographers of all time, including Capa, Eve Arnold, Dennis Stock and Henri Cartier-Bresson, and photos of the actors and filmmakers who helped write the history of film, among them Marilyn Monroe, John Huston, James Dean, Orson Welles, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn.
