Magnum Protest Photography: Capturing the Emotion of Protest | Time.com

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Capturing the Emotion of a Protest

“Sometimes change doesn’t occur immediately or directly but I am in absolutely no doubt that photography has in the past and will in the future serve to initiate change.”

via Time: http://time.com/4820743/capturing-protest-emotion/

Photography’s role in this democratic exercise has changed over the years, particularly as technology has developed and mutated, and a new Magnum Photo exhibition makes that clear by looking back at the scale and impact of protest photography from the 1930s up until the present day.