At all times, collectors have access to contemporary and vintage prints by the range of Magnum photographers, from Capa to Raymond Depardon, Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka, Inge Morath, Martin Parr, Alec Soth – nearly 100 in all. The gallery will host four to five different shows a year.
The different bodies of work play off of one another, while showing the influence of Davidson, 88 and one of the all-time greats, on the younger man. Bruce Davidson’s photos of East Harlem in the 1960s and life in the subway in the 1980s, many of them vintage prints, hang alongside nighttime portraits at 125th Street and Lexington by the up-and-coming Khalik Allah, a nominee member of Magnum. It’s in a coherent space.’įor the inaugural Paris exhibition, McCoy paired two photographers and their visions of New York City, taken decades apart. ‘We’ve had galleries before,’ he says, ‘we’ve had serious people selling prints, but this I think is the first time we’ve had a real gallery gallery. One photographer, Richard Kalvar, a Magnum member since 1975, was at the gallery opening wearing a camera around his neck, as he has done practically every day for the past half-century.
A staircase leads to the photographers’ offices upstairs.
