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By the book 📚 Whether found in a famous novel or a daily newspaper, humankind has long discovered joy, curiosity and refuge in reading. Two commuters peer at newspapers back-to-back on the London Underground in a 1958 photo from Sergio Larrain. @jeangaumy’s family cat, Miou, catches some downtime with a book at their home in Normandy, France. A young blind girl learns to read Arabic in braille in Sabiha Çimen’s (@sabakhayr) series, Hafiz. Comment your favorite 👇 PHOTOS: (1) Antwerp, Belgium. 1988. © @harry_gruyaert / Magnum Photos (2) Copacabana Beach. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1996. © @martinparrstudio / Magnum Photos (3) A woman learning how to read. The women sit around a circle in a long room, with a cow and a calf stabled at one end. They hold their children and read aloud or write on their chalk. They do sums as well as writing and reading. Literacy Village, Lucknow. India. 1960. © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos (4) London, England. 1958–1959. © Sergio Larrain / Magnum Photos (5) Subway platform. New York City, USA. 1980. © @brucedavidsonphoto / Magnum Photos (6) Miou, the Gaumy family cat. Normandy, France. 1985. © @jeangaumy / Magnum Photos (7) Asiye, a blind student, learns to read Arabic in braille. Her aim is to memorize the Qur’an within the next two years and become a Hafız. Istanbul, Turkey. 2020. © Sabiha Çimen (@sabakhayr) / Magnum Photos (8) Scientist’s children. China. 1979. © @evearnoldphotographer / Magnum Photos (9) Salvador Dali. 1954. © @philippe_halsman_official / Magnum Photos (10) Rufino Tamayo, Mexican artist of Zapotecan Indian descent, and his wife Olga at home. Cuernavaca, Mexico. 1979. © @susanmeiselas / Magnum Photos (11) An office worker in Pitt Street Mall reads a book in the lunch hour. Sydney, Australia. 1999. © Trent Parke (@chillioctopus) / Magnum Photos (12) Lake Constance, Austria. 1959. © Inge Morath / Magnum Photos
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❤️. ……# 5 has long been a favourite of mine .. never fails to deliver the narrative accompanied by exquiste light
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I like Larrain’s plain docu style most of all. A great subject and very, very hard to do on film in that lighting. I photographed the Underground extensively in the 80s and can testify to that !
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Abs amazing set
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All super! Bruce Davidson’s image is my fav. 📷🎞️🖼️
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