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Culture Photography. The best films of They were artificial, so I let him go through a lot of nonsense until he relaxed and became spontaneous. Then I took photos that I thought were revealing of his true character. After pitching up in Fairmount, Stock took many photographs around the farm and the town, where Dean was a minor celebrity due to having appeared in a few television dramas. Just a few months later Dean would be buried here, alongside his mother and generations of his family.
Dennis Stock was back in Hollywood after a stint in France, at the same time as Giant was wrapping up filming. James Dean invited him upstate for a weekend's driving in Salinas, Monterey County, but after initial enthusiasm he opted not to take the trip. Dean was killed in his new Porsche the following day. Salinas was the boyhood home of John Steinbeck and the setting for his novel East of Eden; Dean played the part of Cal in the movie. The Misfits was a pivotal moment in the relationship of photographers with cinema.
Lee Jones, Magnum's head of special projects in New York, decided that the film's dream cast deserved special attention. Nine different photographers took turns over 3 months of the shoot to capture the "total chaos" on what would be Marilyn Monroe's last film.
Eve Arnold, Magnum's first woman member, was Monroe's trusted collaborator. Having previously worked with Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford, she started photographing Monroe ten years earlier when they were both relatively unknown. She spent two months on the set of the John Huston movie. Photographer Bruce Davidson remarked, "Marilyn is really in torment - this was the movie where it all collapsed.
And the hidden homosexuality, total neurosis, drugs, the whole works on set. This film is a turning point, and the photographs document the disintegration of a system. Clark Gable had a heart attack the day after filming wrapped on The Misfits.
He died a few days later. With the advent of television, the movies lost much of their allure for the magazines and so it was the end of an era for Magnum. And when money became tight, producers said there was no need for a set photographer.
Directors had a different status, and photographing Truffaut or Godard was a different story from working in Hollywood. Magnum had to adapt to the new, scattered environment which had moved on from the centralising force of the studios. Although Magnum started to disappear from mainstream film sets as the celebrity press picked up the reins, cinema continued to inspire the agency's photographers. After watching the movie I wanted to respond to it, and react to it.
Magnum Photos was formed in , in the wake of the Second World War, by four photographers seeking to retain the rights to their images while working on projects that aligned with their own interests rather than solely responding to commissions from magazines and newspapers.
This shift allowed Magnum photographers to emphasize their artistic integrity and fosters independence in terms of subject matter. The result was a new way of doing assignment photography so that members of the Magnum collective were free to pursue projects that spoke to their personal, political, and artistic concerns.
The publication fees earned would be shared between the photographer and the agency with part of the earnings made available to finance further projects. Although Magnum Photos was formed during and sustained by the postwar heyday of picture magazines such as Life, Look, Picture Post, and Illustrated, the cooperative still exists and recently celebrated its 65 th anniversary.
A solitary protester stands determined in the center of the road, blocking the tanks. The organization of the Magnum Photos collection at the Harry Ransom Center directly reflects the working practices of the photography collective. Malcolm X during his visit to enterprises owned by Black Muslims.
Eventually the physical photographs were returned to the Magnum office to be stored in file cabinets and boxes labeled by photographer and by a range of subjects and thematic groupings. This organizational structure has been preserved in the archival collection at the Ransom Center.
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