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NEWS leadership on issues affecting the PLUS License Generator, LibreDigital? If HarperCollins is stock photographers. As 2006 SAA License Information Panels, License eventually getting profit from there, Update for UPDIG president David Sanger said, “The Embedder & Decoder, Artist & will they cut sweetheart deals to The Universal Photographic Digital principles of SAA include fair busi- Licensor Registry and the License pay a premium for the service Imaging Guidelines (UPDIG) have ness practices, an equitable split of Registry, all launching in 2007. because they know the money still been updated and revised and revenue, shared risk and respon- To learn more about joining the goes back into their pockets even can be found at UPDIG.org. A sibility, mutual trust and respect, PLUS Coalition and using the PLUS though that amount won’t be part free, downloadable PDF version is and recognition of the rights of the standards, visit the PLUS website at of royalty calculations? And exactly available. creator. These have not changed useplus.org. how much do you make off elec- and they transcend any specific tronic distribution? The publishing The 12 guidelines are organized licensing model. We believe that the Anonymous is Jahangir Razmi world is changing, and now is the into a Quick Guide (executive same principles should apply to all An Iranian photographer, whose time to carefully negotiate what summary) and a Complete Guide. stock photography contracts.” The image of an execution won a 1980 you’ll allow companies to do with The aim is to clarify the issues SAA website address is stockartist- Pulitzer Prize, has been recog- your intellectual property.— From affecting accurate reproduction and salliance.org. nized after more than 25 years Contracts Watch, Issue 93 (vol. 14, management of digital image of anonymity. This was the only #1), published by The American Soci- files. Although the guidelines were Licensing Standards time in the Pulitzer history that an ety Of Journalists and Authors, January created from a photographer’s The Picture Licensing Universal anonymous award was given. The 15, 2007 perspective, the UPDIG group has System (PLUS) standards that image showed a line of 11 blind- worked hard to incorporate the simplify the process of grant- folded men executed by a firing Gas Reduced concerns of everyone involved in ing, obtaining and managing the squad in 1979 after Islamic radicals Sine 2004, online photographic the process of reproducing permissions necessary to use overthrew the Shah of Iran. It was agency Alamy has been working to digital images. photographs and illustrations have published in Iranian newspaper offset some of the effects of the been approved and released by the Ettela’at and later distributed by greenhouse gases released into The guidelines have three primary PLUS Coalition, a global non-profit UPI. Jahangir Razmi’s identity was the atmosphere through air travel goals: organization with widespread par- revealed with his cooperation in and office electricity use. In 2005 it • Digital images should look the ticipation by trade associations and the Wall Street Journal late last year offset its emissions with contribu- same as they transfer between stakeholders from the photography, and included other images from tions to Climate Care, and in 2005 devices, platforms and vendors. illustration, advertising, design and the execution. The Pulitzer award, it used the offsets to pay for a • Digital images should be pre- publishing industries. Officially and $10,000, will be presented to project to supply solar powered pared in the correct resolution, at launched in a special multi-industry Razmi in New York on May 21, the electric lanterns to low income the correct size, for the device(s) event at the annual 2006 PhotoPlus day the 2007 Pulitzer winners are families in Kerala, India. Wanting to on which they will be viewed or Expo trade show in New York, the honored at Columbia University. make a bigger commitment, Alamy printed. PLUS standards were established recently launched a number of new • Digital images should have by the largest collaborative effort HC Goes TCP/IP initiatives to help achieve its goal metadata embedded that conforms in the history of image licensing, HarperCollins announced that it’s of making the company carbon- to the IPTC standards, making culminating three years of intensive taking an equity stake in Libre- neutral: the images searchable, providing standards development. For the Digital. If you haven’t heard of the • $100,000 start-up funding for usage and contact information, and first time, publishers, designers and latter, it develops systems to “store, greenhouse gas-saving projects in stating their creators or copyright advertising agency art buyers can control and display your digitized Kerala, India. owners. use universal terminology and stan- content.” (See libredigital.com/ • Further investment in video- dardized codes to simplify the pro- warehouse/ for more info.) The conferencing technology to reduce SAA Mission Expands cess of obtaining and managing im- News Corp.-owned book publisher travel between Alamy offices in The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) age licenses. “The PLUS standards apparently has an interest in get- India and the U.K. membership accepted amend- facilitate efficient communication ting books online and influencing • Greenhouse gas emission ments to the association’s bylaws, and commerce in an increasingly how book publishers do digital reduction targets to be included in proposed by its Board of Directors, global image licensing marketplace,” content. If you’re an author, you the objectives of managers where to expand SAA’s mission to ad- says Jeff Sedlik, president and CEO had also best take interest because relevant. dress the business interests of all of the PLUS Coalition. Supplement- this is going to affect you. Have • Double offsets—restarting professional stock photographers ing last year’s release of the PLUS you checked your contract lately? contributions to third party offset worldwide. The SAA mission was Picture Licensing Glossary, the Chances are that you’ve given organizations. previously limited solely to the PLUS Coalition has released four your publisher some degree of • Sourcing electricity from renew- business of licensing rights-man- additional licensing standards: The electronic rights. If you have, then able sources where possible. aged images. SAA continues to PLUS Media Matrix, PLUS Packs, this stirs up many questions. What CEO James West said, “It is impor- advocate that the best business PLUS-ID System, and PLUS License happens if publishers decide to tant to recognize the relationship models for photographers are ones Data Format. The PLUS standards push more for internet sales? What between economic growth and that manage usage and protect will appear in software com- will they actually sell? How much environmental impact. We want to their intellectual property, and it monly used to create, edit, manage, will they charge? What percentage be transparent about our emissions will continue to provide multifac- browse, distribute and license im- will go to a company like News- and what we are doing to tackle eted support for rights-managed ages. Additional PLUS components Stand, which owns (now most of) the problem.” licensing as well as industry-wide now under development include The Picture Professional  Alamy Adds History sources and contemporary images and post-impressionism, Islamic points to charity or to get discounts Alamy has extended the range of that have never before been avail- art, medieval and renaissance art, off future purchases from Image its archival material by adding the able in high-quality digital format. musical instruments, drawings, Source Direct.” For more informa- World History Archive to its his- The Smithsonian Institution chose prints, antiques, photography, and tion, visit imagesource.com/wish. torical collections. The World His- to partner with Corbis because modern and contemporary art. tory Archive images span centuries, of its strong relationships with The arrangement initially involves Real People, Real Concepts documenting all periods from the editorial and commercial clients more than 2,000 images from New England production company Medieval, Victorian and Elizabethan and reputation for high quality and the museum’s collection. The Art Huntstock, huntstock.com, launched to more contemporary times. service. The first of the Smithson- Resource website address is artres. a new wholly owned collection of A collection of woodcuts, litho- ian images were recently added to com. lifestyle images for worldwide dis- graphs and photographers focus on Corbis.com with plans to increase tribution in January. Owned by Pat the numbers significantly by the Manage This and Mark Hunt, who have 30 years end of 2007. Imagery available in- In December, Extensis launched of experience in the photography cludes Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager’s Manage This, a corporate blog that and stock industry, the growing Bell X-1, Alexander Graham Bell’s includes tidbits about Extensis collection offers Real People, Real invention, the telephone, and the products and employees and inspi- Concepts by “representing all types 45.52-carat Hope Diamond. ration for the creative profession- and all ethnicities enjoying their al. It also includes links to industry daily lives.” Categories include busi- TopFoto & AA resources and a unique perspec- ness, boomers, lifestyles, children, TopFoto announced in January tive on the creative professional concepts and locations. Pat Hunt, a that it has been chosen by the industry as seen from a software frequent contributor to The Picture Automobile Association (AA) developer’s perspective. “With this Professional, sold Light Sources, her for representation of the AA’s blog,” says Jim Kidwell, Extensis stock agency, to Index in 1998, and worldwide travel library. More than technical product specialist and a professional photo retail store 16,000 high-resolution, captioned Manage This editor, “we hope to to E.P. Levines in Boston. She is a AA images can now be found on further strengthen the connection writer and workshop leader in the TopFoto.co.uk, and many more will to our industry and customers. stock industry and teaches business be added in the following months. Manage This will provide an inside at Boston University. She manages Image topics range from beach look at the inner workings of production shoots with Mark, who huts in Bournemouth to Irish Extensis as well as information of has been in the still and film/video lighthouses, and cover 45 countries. interest to creative professionals.” industry for 20 years with Mark According to Alan Smith, founder Manage This can be found at blog. Hunt Backdrops in Boston. Mark and managing partner of TopFoto, extensis.com. produced royalty-free CDs of his “It’s now TopFoto for travel. This rental backgrounds in the 1990s. partnership massively expands our NYPL He shoots both rights-managed existing strengths in travel history The New York Public Library’s De- and royalty-free imagery. For and the brilliant contemporary partment of Communications and more information on distribu- photographers we already Marketing moved on November tion or custom production, email represent.” 20, 2006. Public relations represen- [email protected] or phone tatives Rima Corben, Tim Farrell, 978.761.2743. The Met and Art Resource Jennifer Lam, Nadia Riley, Herb The Metropolitan Museum of Art Scher and Gayle Snible can now be PACA in the Keys has joined a roster of more than reached at: Public Relations Office, The three-day 11th Annual Interna- 6,000 museums, institutions and The New York Public Library, 188 tional PACA Conference was held science, medicine, famous people, monuments worldwide whose Madison Avenue, 5th Floor, New at Key West’s Casa Marina Resort war, art and more. Some 5,000 image rights and reproductions York, New York 10016, phone: Hotel in Florida October 21-23. images are on alamy.com now and are represented by Art Resource, 212.592.7700. Seminars included Orphan Works, that is expected to double by May. according to a January press release metadata standards and the Picture Alamy’s website address is alamy. from Theodore Feder, president of WISH Licensing Universal System. Meg com. Art Resource. Each of the museum’s Royalty-free stock photogra- Asaro and Karen D’Silva of Spark,

collections are represented, phy provider Image Source in a consulting firm for commercial Corbis Partners with Smith- from African and Oceanic art December added four suppliers photographers, kicked off the event. sonian to arms and armor, Asian art, to its customer loyalty program, A panel discussion on microstocks Early this year, Corbis announced costumes European sculpture and which is titled WISH. Redeemable included participation by iStockpho- a new partnership with the Smith- decorative arts, impressionism options from Marriott Hotels, Red to, Fotolia, Dreamstime and Lucky sonian to license widely recognized Letter Days, I Want One of Those Oliver. The marketing Hub—a table digital imagery for the institution. and Fugitive Toys are now available. area where companies displayed Through Corbis, creatives, media The new additions join existing their wares and met with prospec- and publishers now have fast, easy suppliers Amazon, iTunes, Voucher tive partners—was set up in an air- access to hundreds of images Express, Justgiving.com and others, conditioned tent on the beach just from the world-famous Smithson- taking the total number of sup- yards away from the Gulf waters. ian Institution collections such as pliers to 13. Joanne Rees, Image The next PACA conference will be the National Museum of Natural Source director of sales said, held in Las Vegas. PACA’s website is History, the Smithsonian American “Expanding the range of redeem- pacaoffice.org. Art Museum, the National Air and able suppliers is an important part Space Museum, the National Por- of our plan for the WISH scheme. trait Gallery, the National Museum We want to give our clients the of African Art, the Freer Gallery of opportunity to use their WISH Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery points in any way they want. And, and the National Museum of the of course, they still have the op- American Indian. Now, anyone can tion to donate the value of the use Smithsonian’s vast archival re- 12 Issue 1, 2007 AWARDS/CONTESTS helped hundreds of creatives work- doesn’t owe a significant chunk of EVENTS ing for nonprofit organizations by their expertise, and a big debt of Hot Ones waiving over $4 million in licensing gratitude, to Bruce Fraser,” said The PACA Annual Meeting will be O’Reilly Media announced in Janu- fees on images from the Bet- NAPP president Scott Kelby. “… held in Washington, D.C. from May ary that it has won the Professional tmann Archives, one of the world’s it’s safe to say that this industry 4-6, 2007, pacaoffice.org. Photographer 2007 Hot One Award largest and oldest collections of wouldn’t be where it is today for its book, Stephen Johnson on photographic images. The company without Bruce’s input, advice and The BAPLA Picture Buyers Fair in Digital Photography. (This book was also supports charitable industry guidance. He’s a gifted and talented London, U.K., is taking place May reviewed by Ethan G. Salwen in programs throughout its 21 offices instructor who has dedicated his 9-10, 2007. Issue 4.2006.) The prestigious Hot worldwide. life to taking the mystery out of One Awards honor the photogra- digital imaging technology, and The CEPIC Congress is in Florence, phy industry’s best new products Work considered for the Corbis that’s why we’re proud to honor Italy, June 6-10, 2007, cepic.org. for professional application. “Our Creativity for Social Justice Award him as the first recipient of NAPP’s team of judges chose this year’s will comprise winners in any Lifetime Achievement Award.” Born crop of winners based on quality, non-profit category in the ADC in Edinburgh, Scotland, Bruce is one WEBSITE usability, innovation and, in many competition that was created on a of the world’s leading authorities OF INTEREST cases, value for price. These judges pro bono basis. The final recipient on color and digital imaging. During are all working professional pho- will be decided by ADC’s hybrid his career, he has written hundreds Discover tographers, and their endorsement jury, made up of jury chairs and of magazine articles and is the co- Britain on View is a specialist of these products indicates that selected members from the adver- author of the award-winning Real resource on Britain representing the items work not only on the tising, design and interactive media World Photoshop series, as well other British government collec- conceptual level, but on the practi- juries. All eligible professional as the bestselling books Real World tions as well as the VisitBritain cal level as well,” said Jeff Kent, Hot entries must have been printed, Color Management and Real World library. 40,000 images can be found One editor, Professional Photogra- published, broadcast or presented Camera Raw. His amazing insights on britainonview.com. The new pher magazine. online for the first time between have made him a much sought-after marketing campaign for the travel January 1, 2006 and December 31, speaker and consultant on image collections, “Discover,” showcases Pro Bono Honor 2006, in any country. Entries may reproduction, color correction, and and highlights the depth and quality Corbis, corbis.com, announced be submitted by any company or color management. During his cel- of images and encourages their use in November its global signature individual involved in the creation ebrated career, Bruce has written in print media. The subject range community relations program, the or production of the work. Stu- for Photoshop User, MacWeek and includes landscapes, coastlines, cit- Corbis Creativity for Social Justice dent entries must be created with MacUser magazines. Several of his ies, people, food and drink, festivals, Award, to honor innovative digital an existing non-profit organization books have been reviewed in The galleries and museums, lifestyle and media work produced for a non- in mind, but the public production Picture Professional, including one in more. profit organization on a pro bono requirement is waived. ADC and this issue. basis. The award is part of a special Corbis plan a fall 2007 seminar to partnership with the Art Direc- showcase the winning work and Bruce Fraser died on December PHOTO SHOWS tors Club (ADC), adcglobal.org, to publicize resources available to 16, 2006, of lung cancer, shortly and will be presented at the ADC those interested in creating pro after receiving the NAPP Lifetime ICP 86th Annual Awards Gala on May bono work. Corbis and the ADC Achievement Award. 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 31, 2007. This award comes with a will also host a series of exhibitions 43rd Street $20,000 cash prize presented to in North America, Europe and Asia Shell Competition New York, New York the non-profit client and a $5,000 to showcase the ADC awards. The closing date for entries to the scholarship to the winning student Shell Wildlife Photographer of the May 11-September 9 whose work was created for the NAPP Award Year competition is March 23 for “Let Your Motto Be Resis- non-profit. Steve Davis, president The National Association of Pho- postal entries and March 30 for on- tance: African American and CEO of Corbis said, “Corbis toshop Professionals announced line entries. Submit online at nhm. Portraiture from 1865 to the has always been aware and involved in December that best-selling ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary- Present” in the fight for social justice issues, author Bruce Fraser was named exhibitions/wpy-entry/. Changing roles of African American and we’re thrilled to partner with as the recipient of the first NAPP photographic portraiture from the ADC to recognize creatives Lifetime Achievement Award. the mid-nineteenth century to with that same passion for social “I don’t think there’s a Photo- the present are illuminated in this justice.” Since 2003, Corbis has shop professional out there who exhibition. The images establish a sense of place and identity and ex- plore both aesthetic and vernacular styles. The subjects include actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson, trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis, legendary singer Nat King Cole, performing artist Eartha Kitt, jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong and many more. Among the photogra- phers who are included are James North of Normal VanDerZee, Edward Weston, Alaska Stock, alaskastock.com, won two Creativity Annual Awards recently for a series of self-promotional direct Gordon Parks, Carl Van Vechten mailers titled “North of Normal.” The awards recognized the mailers in the categories of best campaign series and and lesser known or anonymous single promo. The series of mini photo catalogs included seasonal stock images from Alaska by more than 20 Alaska photographers. This exhibition will Stock photographers and were distributed nationwide on a quarterly basis. The competition is one of the oldest inaugurate the new Smithsonian and most recognized design competitions, and it culminates in the publication of the Creativity Annual, a 400-page, full Museum of African American His- color hardcover book distributed worldwide by Harper Collins. This year, entries were received from 38 states and tory and Culture and will feature 29 countries. 88 works drawn exclusively from

The Picture Professional 13 the collections of the National SFMOMA “Martin Munkacsi: Think While You Museum of American Il- Portrait Gallery. The ICP will be San Francisco Museum of Modern Shoot!” represents all phases of lustration at the Society of the opening venue. Art Munkacsi’s 40-year career, reveal- illustrators 151 Third Street ing his extraordinary range—from 128 E. 63rd Street “Stephen Shore: The Bio- San Francisco, California the glamour of Hollywood to daily New York, New York graphical Landscape” life in Africa—and spotlighting This exhibition presents 164 color May 12-September 16 his unrelenting commitment to Through April 28 prints of Stephen Shore, drawing “Martin Munkacsi: Think capturing physical vitality in elegant “The 49th Annual Exhibition” largely from his groundbreaking While You Shoot!” and innovative framing. By the time this issue reaches you, series “Uncommon Places” and The exhibition brings together two parts of this exhibition—the the Aperture Foundation’s ex- more than 125 vintage photo- George Eastman House Sequential category (ran through panded reissue of the 1982 book graphs as well as magazines and 900 East Avenue February 17) and the Book and of the same name. The exhibit also layouts from the 1920s through Rochester, New York Editorial categories (through features a selection from American the 1940s—including politically March 24)—will be over, but the Surfaces, snapshots photographed charged images documenting the Through April 22 Advertising, Institutional and on the road to Amarillo, Texas, “Day of Potsdam,” which marked “Witness: Know War/No Uncommissioned categories will circa 1972, and early, rarely exhib- the start of Nazi dictatorship, Genocide” remain on exhibit though April ited conceptual projects as well as cutting-edge fashion spreads for This is a series of three exhibitions 28. More than 5,000 illustrations examples from his recent iPhoto and programs: were submitted for consideration books. This exhibit began its in this juried competition, the international tour at the Armand “Reflections of the Heart: Photo- most comprehensive for the art Hammer Museum, UCLA, in the graphs by David Seymour” is an of illustration. A 600-page book summer of 2005, before moving exhibition of 75 photographs taken will be published in October 2007 on to Hotel de Sully, Paris, in the by founding Magnum photographer and distributed by HarperCollins. winter of 2005, and the Worcester David Seymour (known as Chim) Chair Tim O’Brien, an award-win- Art Museum in Massachusetts in who was heralded as a photojour- ning Time magazine cover artist, the spring of 2006. nalist and editorial pictorialist. The said “…the Annual is still a valuable retrospective is organized chrono- tool that I use to see the best illus- “Amelia Earhart: From Image logically and showcases many of tration in the world, and the cor- to Icon” the black-and-white images for responding shows at the Society The image of Amelia Earhart is as which Seymour is best known. are breathtaking.” identifiable today as it was in 1937, His photographs were published the year her plane disappeared in leading magazines from 1933 over the Pacific. Her career in the to 1956 when he was killed while SHOW REVIEWS public eye began in 1928 when © Joan Munkacsi, Courtesy F.C. documenting war. Several of she was selected to be the first Gundlach Collection Seymour’s rare color images of fa- by Anita Dickhuth woman to fly across the Atlantic, Fred Astaire on his toes, 1936, mous personalities, such as Sophia in part because of her physical Harper’s Bazaar, and portraits of Loren and Ingrid Bergman will also The International Center for resemblance to Charles Lindbergh fascinating cultural figures—this be on display. Photography’s latest exhibitions, who made the first Atlantic cross- career retrospective serves to re- which opened on January 19 ing just one year earlier. Earhart affirm Martin Munkacsi’s invaluable “Know War” is an exhibition and run until April 29, highlight was launched into instant celebrity, contribution to the history of pho- drawn entirely from the George the legendary French photogra- aided considerably by one of the tography. Born in 1896, Munkacsi Eastman House’s collection and pher Henri Cartier-Bresson; a flight’s promoters—publisher pioneered the art of enlivening depicts war from 1855 to the reintroduction to the Hungarian George Palmer Putnam—whom photography with action and en- present, featuring one of the earli- photographer Martin Munkacsi, she later married. Her image was ergy. He preferred that his subjects est images of war ever produced who worked first in Budapest and frequently used in the newspa- move and that he move with them and continuing through the then reached his apex as a fashion per, covering her latest record- handling his heavy camera equip- decades to today’s conflict in Af- photographer in New York City breaking flying exploits, and in ment as if it were portable. He was ghanistan. Included are Alexander in the mid-twentieth century; and illustrated magazines, profiling her the first staff photographer for Gardner, Carl Mydans and Edward a collaborative exhibit with the forays into clothing designs or her the German photo weekly Berliner Steichen. George Eastman House on silent endorsements for everything from Illustrirte Zeitung (BIZ). Munkacsi film star Louise Brooks. cigarettes to luggage. She capital- immigrated to the United States “Darfur/Darfur” is a multimedia ized on her fame to champion in 1934 and took a job as fashion exhibition depicting the crisis and the advancement of women and photographer at Harper’s Bazaar genocide in Darfur. The exhibition other causes about which she was under editor-in-chief Carmel was created to place these reali- passionate and outspoken. She Snow. His work revolutionized ties in the context of the region’s became the embodiment of the American fashion photography and culture and to advocate for im- new roles opening up to women in remains that for which he is best mediate and lasting peace. Displays the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibi- remembered in the United States. include digitally projected images tion traces the construction of He presented models outdoors, in by photographers Ron Haviv, Paolo Earhart’s image and its continued action—running, swimming, driving Pellegrin, Michal Ronnen Safdie resonance. and enjoying the physical freedom and others. Images are combined and engineering marvels of the with Sudanese-inspired music modern world. His model was the and words, and clips from several “All-American” athletic woman, feature length documentary films a real person with a real identity. are on view in the gallery. In 1940, he photographed “How America Lives” for Ladies Home Journal, which portrayed everyday life in America during World War II. © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum

16 Issue 1, 2007 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marseille, France, 1932, “Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrap- sense of wonder that it continues book: Photographs, 1932-46” to fascinate me to this day.” shows his early work and gives us an insight into his editing process Eugene Steichen recommended and artistic development. During Munkacsi to Carmel Snow, the World War II, Cartier-Bresson influential art director atHarper’s was captured by the Germans and Bazaar, so when Munkacsi arrived presumed dead, so the Museum in New York in 1934, he became of Modern Art (MOMA) in New a fashion photographer, and then York began to gather his work for revolutionized fashion photogra- a memorial exhibition. Cartier- phy by applying his love of motion Bresson, however, escaped alive on to his fashion shots. His his third attempt from his captors models ran on the beach instead in 1943. And when he heard about of posing dryly in indoor settings. the show MOMA was planning, He also handled advertising assign- he selected and printed examples © Joan Munkacsi, courtesy F. C. Gundlach ments for Good Housekeeping, Town of his best works—including Collection. and Country and other magazines. many that had never been printed Fun on the beach—Lunabad, before. He brought this scrapbook A striking combination of images W. Pabst, Pandora’s Box, 1929, with him to New York in 1946. The shows two black-and-white photos Munkacsi (1896-1963) began his George Eastman House Motion show was held at MOMA in 1947. Munkacsi pasted side by side on photographic career in Budapest Picture Department, Louise It is said that Cartier-Bresson and a board. On the left, there is a as a sports photographer (he once Brooks Collection. Robert Capa drew up plans for photo of Munkacsi’s daughter as strapped himself to a racing car to the Magnum Photo Agency on the a toddler walking in the sand at a get exciting shots with his large- When Brooks returned to Amer- back of a napkin during this show beach. It is entitled “The March of format camera) and as an aerial ica, she decided against working while they were having coffee in Innocence.” On the right, there is photographer taking pictures from in Hollywood, and was told she the MOMA cafeteria. a photo of the legs and boots of a Zeppelin. He loved capturing had no voice for the talkies. She a German army parade marching motion. then turned down an offer to do a The present exhibit brings over cobblestones in 1933. The voiceover in William Powell’s The together 331 original scrapbook handwritten caption for that one is When he moved to Berlin, he Canary Murder Case. She eventually images printed by Cartier-Bresson “March of Evil.” worked for the popular magazine settled near Rochester, New York, in 1946, plus 15 modern prints and Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, where and later bequeathed her vast larger prints made for the 1947 The Munkacsi exhibition opens at he was assigned stories in Turkey, collection to the George Eastman exhibition. Many of the images the SFMOMA in May (see Photo London, New York, Sicily, Egypt and House when she died in 1985. form the core collection of the Shows above for details). Liberia. In 1930 he brought back a Foundation Henri Cartier-Bres- sensational picture entitled, “Three The exhibit, curated by assistant son, which was established by him, As an added treat, you can see Boys Running at Lake Tanganyika.” curator Vanessa Rocco, is the elev- his wife, their daughter Melanie “Louise Brooks and the ‘New It was a rear view of three black enth in the “New Histories of Pho- and photographer Martine Franck Woman’ in Weimar Cinema,” a children caught between sand and tography,” a project of the George in 2002 to preserve his legacy collaborative exhibit with the spray. It impressed Henri Cartier- Eastman House/ICP Alliance. and work. ICP is the only venue George Eastman House. This is a Bresson so much that he said, in outside of Paris to have the honor one-room show featuring a newly 1977, “For me this photograph was of exhibiting this important col- remastered DVD version of the the spark that ignited my enthusi- lection. It shows many of his most classic German filmPandora’s Box, asm…I suddenly realized that, by important pictures—the portrait film stills, posters, and early movie capturing the moment, photogra- of Henri Matisse in his home, for ephemera of Louise Brooks playing phy was able to achieve eternity. It example. The revealing exhibit was Lulu, the heroine of Pandora’s Box is the only photograph to have in- curated by Agnes Sire, head of the (1929), and the lead in Diary of a fluenced me. This picture has such Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson. Lost Girl directed by G. W. Pabst, intensity, such joie de vivre, such a as well as other material from Cartier-Bresson said: “To make the Weimar period such as Fritz good pictures, be yourself, but Lang’s Metropolis (1927) and Josef forget yourself.“ He also said, Sternberg’s Blue Angel (1930) with “A camera is a weapon, a way of Marlene Dietrich. shouting the way you feel.” Louise Brooks “embodied the The “Martin Munkacsi: Think While ideal of the Weimar-era [Germany] You Shoot!” exhibit originated ‘New Woman’ (1918-33) a social with Professor F.C. Gundlach, the role that connoted political equal- octogenarian former fashion pho- ity, free-spiritedness and gender tographer and Munkacsi collector ambiguity.” Apparently Pabst at the Haus der Photographie in picked the 21-year-old Louise Hamburg. The American exhibit Brooks over the 25-year-old was organized by Carol Squiers for Marlene Dietrich who was sitting ICP and Sandra S. Phillips for the waiting for him in his office. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Kansas-born Brooks brought Art. Many of the photos are on © Joan Munkacsi, courtesy F.C. Gundlach freshness to the German author loan from the Gundlach Collection Collection. Frank Wedekind’s heroine, Lulu. and the Ullstein Bild Archive. Operetta soubrette Rosi Barsony

in her entrancing grotesque dance, circa 1932, gelatin silver print The Picture Professional 17