Magnum on Set: iconic Hollywood stars

Head On Photo Festival 2013

Magnum Photographers

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Dates: 18 May 2013 - 23 Jun 2013

Location: State Library of New South Wales, Shakespeare Place, Sydney NSW, Australia

Hours: Mon,Wed,Thu,Fri 9am-5pm, Tue 9am-8pm, Sat-Sun 10am-5pm

Entry Fee: Free

Magnum on Set is a landmark exhibition featuring classic photos taken by Magnum photographers on the sets of iconic films including ‘The Seven Year Itch, ‘Rebel Without a Cause, ‘Moby Dick’ and ‘Zabriskie Point’. Among the many stunning shots in this exhibition are Eve Arnold’s remarkable shots of Marilyn Monroe and Robert Capa’s memorable images of Ingrid Bergman, Billy Wilder and John Huston.

The exhibition takes visitors behind the scenes of cinematic masterpieces including Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight (with photographer W Eugene Smith), Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch (with Elliott Erwitt), Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause (with Dennis Stock), Orson Welles’ The Trial (with Nicolas Tikhomiroff), John Huston’s Moby Dick (with Erich Lessing), Joseph L Mankiewicz’s Suddenly, Last Summer (with Burt Glinn), Andrzej Zulawski’s L’important c’est d’aimer (with Jean Gaumy), Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point (with Bruce Davidson) and Volker Schlondorff’s Death of a Salesman (with Inge Morath).