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Bay Area Reunion Honors Spanish Judge

August 31, 2010
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Bay Area Reunion Honors Spanish Judge

The 74th annual Bay Area reunion of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, held in Berkeley, California, on May 30, paid tribute to the legal work of Judge Baltasar Garzón in challenging decades of silence about mass murders conducted during the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. The program, part of...
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Magnum photos as electronic postcards

August 27, 2010
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Select images from the legendary collection of Magnum, founded after World War II by Robert Capa, Chim, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, will be available as e-postcards through Paperless Post, a company specializing in electronic stationary, PR Newswire reports:

"We are excited to be collaborating with some of the most...
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MAGNUM photo archives publicly accessible

June 22, 2010
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MAGNUM photo archives publicly accessible

Earlier this year Magnum, the photo agency founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and "Chim" Seymour, sold its photojournalism archive (more than 185,000 prints) to a private investment company owned by Michael Dell, which in turn has handed it over to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. The HRC...
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Juan Salas interviewed in Le Monde

June 7, 2010
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French paper Le Monde interviewed Juan Salas on his discovery of With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain, the long-lost Spanish Civil War documentary by Henri Cartier-Bresson (videoclip here).
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“With the Lincoln Brigade” screened in Madrid

May 28, 2010
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This Wednesday evening, the Filmoteca Española in Madrid screened Henri Cartier-Bresson's recently recovered Spanish Civil War documentary With the Lincoln Brigade, presented by Juan Salas, who discovered the film. Also present was ALBA board member Soledad Fox. See here for a report in Público, here for more on the discovery, here...
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Free Orphan Film DVD sampler for attendees

March 22, 2010
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Free Orphan Film DVD sampler for attendees

The OFS reports: an Orphan Film Sampler will be given to attendees at the rapidly upcoming 7th Orphan Film Symposium, which commences April 7th. The samples features an assortment of films shown at past symposiums, alongside orphaned works not showcased before--including With the Lincoln Brigade.
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Events

March 6, 2010
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NYC’s 74th Reunion of the Volunteers of Liberty Lincoln Brigade’s “Legacy of Activism” Award to Honor Amy Goodman, acclaimed broadcast journalist, host of Democracy Now! May 2, 4:30 pm Museo del Barrio, 104th Street and 5th Avenue Order tickets online at www.alba-valb.org by clicking on “NEW YORK REUNION 2010” For information, write info@alba-valb.org or...
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Rare Documentary Film Saved

March 6, 2010
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Rare Documentary Film Saved

A year ago, film researcher Juan Salas made the startling discovery that a 16mm print of documentary footage in the ALBA Collection of the Tamiment Library was the long lost film made by Henri Cartier-Bresson during the Spanish Civil War, titled With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain. The discovery prompted the decision to...
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