Photography Solidarity, Magnum Square Print Sale and Vogue raise funds for the NAACP
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Solidarity, Magnum Square Print Sale and Vogue raise funds for the NAACP

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Giulia Pacciardi

From Monday, July 27th until Sunday, August 2nd, the legendary photo agency Magnum Photos and Vogue joins forces to raise funds for the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

All the artists involved, and the archival photographs selected and offered for sale, explore the theme of unity and solidarity in a year of social upheaval that has seen protests related to the Black Lives Matter movement come to the fore around the world.
While acknowledging the daunting divisions and fault-lines running through society, the selection will examine a simultaneous human yearning for commune and connection, aiming to explore the strength of both the individual and collective, as well as the interdependence of peoples around the world in the face of adversity and oppression.

Several photographs depict the civil rights movement in the United States and the ongoing struggle for racial equality, exploring moments in history, from the beginning to the present day, when human ties and the mobilization of the masses have sought to bring about positive change by fighting shoulder to shoulder.

The prints, all measuring 15.24×15.24 cm, in museum quality and signed, will be sold for a single week for $100 and 50% of the proceeds will be donated to the NAACP, one of the first and most influential civil rights associations in the United States founded in 1909.

Here you will find a selection of our favorites, but we recommend you visit the Magnum Shop so you don’t miss any of the photographs of international artists such as Daniel Arnold, Christopher Anderson, Peter van Agtmael, Eve Arnold, Miranda Barnes, Matt Black, June Canedo de Souza, Bruce Davidson, Raymond Depardon, W. Eugene Smith, Stuart Franklin, Harry Gruyaert, Hassan Hajjaj, Bob Henriques, Yael Martinez, Eli Reed, Richie Shazam, Alec Soth, Newsha Tavakolian, Shirin Neshat, Larry Towell, Ed Templeton, and many others.

USA. Minneaplolis, Minnesota. June 2, 2020. The scene at Cup Foods, the site of the killing of George Floyd by Police. As the days went on, the site was one of mourning and anger, but also turned into an ongoing block party.
PETER VAN AGTMAEL/MAGNUM PHOTOS
USA. Virginia. Petersburg. Civil strike, Core group. Training activist not to react to provocation. 1960.
EVE ARNOLD/MAGNUM PHOTOS
MEXICO. Mexico City. Olympic games. American athletes Larry James, Lee Evans and Ron Freeman (left to right) on the 400 metres podium at the 1968 Olympic Games. They demonstrate against US race discrimination by clutching their fists on the podium.
RAYMOND DEPARDON/MAGNUM PHOTOS
STUART FRANKLIN/MAGNUM PHOTOS
Cyclists in the rain. Shanghai, China. 1993
USA. 1973. American political activist Angela Davis.
PHILIPPE HALSMAN/MAGNUM PHOTOS
USA. Chicago. Muhammad ALI, boxing world heavy weight champion showing off his right fist. 1966.
THOMAS HOEPKER/MAGNUM PHOTOS
USA. Greenwood, Mississippi. 1963. After giving a concert in a cotton field with Pete Seeger and Theo Bikel, Bob Dylan plays behind the SNCC office. Bernice Reaon, one of the original Freedom Singers and later the leader of Sweet Honey in the Rock, listens. Mendy Samstein sits behind Dylan and talks to Willie Blue.
DANNY LYON/MAGNUM PHOTOS
USA. GEORGIA. Forsyth County. Antiracism March. 1987.
ELI REED/MAGNUM PHOTOS
Tell Your Friends to Pull Up. New York City. 2020.
RICHIE SHAZAM/VOGUE
Women of Agadez. 2018.
STEPHEN TAYO/VOGUE
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Written by Giulia Pacciardi

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