Magnum Photos

Exhibition - The Black Chronicles 

Magnum Photographers 

The Magnum Print Room, London
14 September - 21 October 2011

The Black Chronicles marks a significant partnership across two very different but complementary photographic agencies, Magnum Photos and Autograph ABP.

This exhibition brings together the work of four different photographers, who have brought the black subject into focus through their work as longstanding Magnum members. It is therefore an invitation to unpick the authority the archive generates. This exhibition marks a modest beginning of an open enquiry that operates across many photographic archival stories in which the black subject... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. "Simple" was a character that Langston... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. A deserted mother wondering what... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Strike captain during protest by... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Father and son at Lake Michigan.... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. An alley between overcrowded tenements,... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. A woman and her squatter's shack... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Back steps of the 45th Street bar.... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Anti-lynching demonstration.

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Eddie Nichols Gymnasium at 50th... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Female impersonator.

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Tuesday Afternoon on South Halsted... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. After school.

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Afternoon game at table 2.

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Sandlot baseball.

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Gospel Service.

Wayne Miller 1946

USA. Chicago. 1946. Three teenagers in kitchenette apartment.... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Prayer meeting.

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Girl with newspaper fashion supplement.... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Three young men standing in doorway.... 

Wayne Miller 1946

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. This basement apartment was condemned.... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Impromptu hoedown on the third... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. One-room kitchenette.

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Sometimes a father would put his... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Sweeping the sidewalk in the morning.... 

Wayne Miller 1948

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. This boys father, Eldzier Corter,... 

Ian Berry 1969

G.B. ENGLAND. Midlands. An elderly white patient wakes up in... 

Ian Berry 1969

G.B. ENGLAND. Birmingham. 1969. 

Ian Berry 1972

GB. England. London. 1972. A man with a pint of beer eyes a... 

Ian Berry 1964

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Black actress shops on Oxford Street. 1964.... 

Ian Berry 1964

GB. England. London. 1964. Brixton. Black and white workers... 

Ian Berry 1983

GB. England. London. Evangelical Church. West Indians become... 

Ian Berry 1972

GB. England. London. Whitechapel. Black man shelters with... 

Ian Berry 1986

G.B. ENGLAND. Liverpool. Liverpool. A pro Mandela, ANC demonstration... 

Ian Berry 1981

ENGLAND. London. Brixton. 1981. 

George Rodger 1964

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Afro-Caribbean immigrants arrive at Waterloo... 

George Rodger 1964

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Afro-Caribbean immigrants arrive at Waterloo... 

George Rodger 1964

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Afro-Caribbean immigrants arrive at Waterloo... 

George Rodger 1964

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Afro-Caribbean immigrants arrive at Waterloo... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

G.B. ENGLAND. Wolverhampton. Outside a club. 1978. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1973

G.B. ENGLAND. London. West Indian family. 1973. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1973

GB. ENGLAND. London. Portrait of a local musician in Brixton.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

G.B. ENGLAND. Wolverhampton. Disco. 1978. 

Wayne Miller 1946

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Debutante Ball sponsored by the... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Party at the Parkway Community... 

Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. The painter Eldzier CORTOR in his... 

George Rodger 1964

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Afro-Caribbean immigrants arrive at Waterloo... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1980

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Schoolboys looking at stereo equipment... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1973

GB. ENGLAND. Brixton. School children outside Desmond's Hip City... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1974

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Brixton. Reggae Festival. 1974. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

GB. ENGLAND. Wolverhampton. Dancehall in Wolverhampton. 1978.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

G.B. ENGLAND. London. The Coach and Horses pub in Brixton. 1978.... 
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