The official publication celebrating Magnum Photos’ 70th anniversary: a totally fresh and perceptive view of the legendary agency’s history and archive. Editors Clément Chéroux and Clara Bouveresse demonstrate how Magnum Photos owes its pre-eminence to the ability of its photographers to encompass and navigate the points between photography as art object and photography as documentary evidence. Featuring both group and individual projects, the book includes contact sheets, notebooks, magazine spreads and other previously unseen material to accompany the photographs. ‘Magnum Manifesto’ is organized into three main parts:
Part 1: Human Rights and Wrongs (1947–1968) views the Magnum archive through a humanist lens, focusing on post-war ideals of commonality and utopianism.
Part 2: An Inventory of Differences (1969–1989) shows a world fragmenting, with a focus on subcultures, minorities and outsiders.
Part 3: Stories About Endings (1990–present day) charts the ways in which Magnum photographers have captured – and continue to capture – a world in flux and under threat.
