Yes, We Cannes!
The Cannes Film Festival starts today and runs until May 22. Magnum looks back at six decades of the famous international film showcase and schmooze-fest. CANNES, France—The opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, 1953.
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Book of the Week Fuji by Chris Steele-Perkins The impetus for this three-year project began when Steele - Perkins was offered a gift from his Japanese wife of the famous book by nineteenth-century master printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, "36 Views of Mount Fuji". Struck by the verisimilitude of the prints as historical documents of the life of the peoples around the mountain - woodcutters, fishermen, peasants, aristocrats - as well as the beauty and spiritual aspect of the area, Steele-Perkins began to research further. | Join the Fray © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. Photography is essentially a personal matter — a search for inner truth. Inge Morath |