“Up Close & Personal: The Most Intimate Photographs from Magnum” is an invitation to consider the role of intimacy, as interpreted by over fifty Magnum photographers .
From November 9-13, Magnum Photos will launch a curated sale of archival quality photographic prints, making the rarely-seen work of iconic artists available for sale to a wide audience, for a limited time only.
THE MOST INTIMATE PHOTOGRAPHS
Personal and intimate work has always been at the heart of Magnum photographers’ practices: whether closely documenting human stories or turning the camera to the intimacies of home and body, this series speaks of the role that closeness plays in the acts of witnessing and picture-making.
Defining intimacy through singular states of emotional, intellectual, or physical proximity, this Square Print Sale celebrates the connections between humans and documented by photography.
Each image, a meditation on the delicate space between public and private, is accompanied by a quote from the artist, contextu- alising their work with a personal perspective on the image and on photography.
THE SQUARE PRINT SALE / NOTES TO EDITORS
The Magnum Square Print Sale will take place at the Magnum Photos Online Store: store.magnumphotos.com.
It will be open from Monday, November 9th, 2015, at 9AM EST until Friday, November 13th, 2015, at 6PM EST. During the sale, and for five days only, archival quality prints, signed by the photographer are available for just $100.
Magnum Photos is an artists’ cooperative since 1947, and maintains its original values of uncompromising excellence, truth, respect and independence, representing an idiosyncratic mix of journalist, artist and storyteller. Our photographers share a vision to chronicle world events, people, places and culture with a powerful narrative that defies convention, shatters the status quo, redefines history and transforms lives.
ONLINE AUCTION
Up Close & Personal: The Most Intimate Photographs from Magnum
From 9 to 13 November 2015
An album with images and text can be seen at www.magnumphotos.com/upclosepersonal
