See famed photographers’ snaps of Tbilisi in Magnum Photos exhibition
A photograph of readers at the National Parliamentary Library in Tbilisi. Photo: Martin Parr.
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A collection of still moments of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi by internationally recognised photographers including Robert Capa, Thomas Dworzak and Henri Cartier-Bresson will go on display on Friday.
The city’s TBC Gallery will open its doors for the public with Tbilisi in Magnum Photo Books, an exposition bringing together up to 35 works by names from the acclaimed photo cooperative.
Beside Capa, Dworzak and Cartier-Bresson, works presented at the display will come from Carl De Keyzer, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Inge Morath, Jonas Bendiksen, Paolo Pellegrin and Martin Parr.
A 1972 photograph of a street in one of Tbilisi’s old town districts by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos.
Organisers will also present Martin Parr Tbilisi, a book bringing together works by Parr, a British photojournalist and winner of the World Photography Organisation prize for Outstanding Contribution to Photography, and text by popular Georgian author Aka Morchiladze.
The book was first unveiled within Georgia’s representation as the official Guest of Honour at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, where personalities and stories of the country’s art and culture were under spotlight.
For the TBC Gallery, the exhibition will follow a display celebrating the 70th anniversary of Magnum Photos, an internationally recognised agency founded in postwar years by a group of photographers including Capa and Cartier-Bresson, at the venue.
The 2017 celebration in Tbilisi featured World Press Photo award-winning German photojournalist Thomas Dworzak, who co-authored Russian Journal Revisited, a re-tracing of a 1947 journey across the Soviet Union by famed photojournalist Capa and author John Steinbeck.
For the project, Dworzak travelled cities of the former USSR alongside British reporter Julius Strauss, with the duo documenting places and moments from lives of people in the former Soviet states today.
The Georgian capital was also the place for a display of works by Cartier-Bresson last year, with the exhibition of classic photographs of French capital Paris at the Tbilisi History Museum.
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