Light fantastic! Eye-opening shots from the Magnum square print sale
What’s the difference between an AI photograph and one taken by a human? The use of light – something mastered by all of these images on sale The Magnum square print sale has released eye-opening shots from the collection, including a portrait of Esmaiel and his brother Gholamreza holding baby goats in Bakhtiari Province, Iran, and an image of two boys with their parents in a tent trekking across the Zagros Mountains looking for pasture for their flock. The likelihood that the boys, with their expressive faces, will follow in the footsteps of their parents is extremely slim as the nomads are rapidly dying out, a testament to the fast-changing times we are living in. The project, Public Encounters, is a project that formed an antidote to the intensive engagement of John Huston's first two bodies of work on prisons and ex-prisoners and shows Monroe Monroe's isolation during filming of The Misfits.
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• Portrait of Esmaiel and his brother Gholamreza. Bakhtiari Province, Iran, 2018 ‘Deep in central Iran, where nomads have roamed for millennia, I found these two boys holding baby goats. Their parents sat in a black tent, trekking across the Zagros Mountains looking for pasture for their flock. The likelihood that the boys, with their expressive faces, will follow in the footsteps of their parents is extremely slim as the nomads are rapidly dying out, a testament to the fast-changing times we are living in.’ Newsha Tavakolian. Buy this print ‘Deep in central Iran, where nomads have roamed for millennia, I found these two boys holding baby goats. Their parents sat in a black tent, trekking across the Zagros Mountains looking for pasture for their flock. The likelihood that the boys, with their expressive faces, will follow in the footsteps of their parents is extremely slim as the nomads are rapidly dying out, a testament to the fast-changing times we are living in.’
• A student who left school mid-term waits for her father to pick her up. Istanbul, Turkey, 2018 ‘This image was taken in 2017 – one of the first photographs I took with my Hasselblad. This student was leaving her Quran school in the middle of the winter and she was waiting for her father to pick her up. All her friends were watching, wondering why she was leaving so suddenly. Photography gave me the pleasure of seeing myself back then: the excuses I came up with, the mistakes I made.’ Sabiha Çimen. Buy this print ‘This image was taken in 2017 – one of the first photographs I took with my Hasselblad. This student was leaving her Quran school in the middle of the winter and she was waiting for her father to pick her up. All her friends were watching, wondering why she was leaving so suddenly. Photography gave me the pleasure of seeing myself back then: the excuses I came up with, the mistakes I made.’
• ‘Tokai Forest is part of the greater Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town and is close to where I grew up. I remember walking in those woods as a toddler and something about the light when I took this shot reminded me of that time. Public Encounters is a project that formed an antidote to the intensive engagement of my first two bodies of work on prisons and ex-prisoners. Each is a portrait of a brief and random encounter, with an individual or a landscape.’ Mikhael Subotzky. Buy this print ‘Tokai Forest is part of the greater Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town and is close to where I grew up. I remember walking in those woods as a toddler and something about the light when I took this shot reminded me of that time. Public Encounters is a project that formed an antidote to the intensive engagement of my first two bodies of work on prisons and ex-prisoners. Each is a portrait of a brief and random encounter, with an individual or a landscape.’
• While on location in Nevada, the director John Huston spent long hours at the gambling tables in Reno. Monroe went with him once, toward the end of filming The Misfits. ‘Monroe was suffering with depression during the breakdown of her marriage to Arthur Miller, who is seen in the background. The light falls mainly on Monroe’s face and shows her melancholy state. Meanwhile, Miller fades into the shadows, creating the impression of great distance between them, and highlighting Monroe’s isolation.’ Michael Arnold, Eve Arnold Estate. Buy this print While on location in Nevada, the director John Huston spent long hours at the gambling tables in Reno. Monroe went with him once, toward the end of filming The Misfits. ‘Monroe was suffering with depression during the breakdown of her marriage to Arthur Miller, who is seen in the background. The light falls mainly on Monroe’s face and shows her melancholy state. Meanwhile, Miller fades into the shadows, creating the impression of great distance between them, and highlighting Monroe’s isolation.’
• ‘When I visited Morocco in the 1970s, it was love at first sight. I felt like I’d stepped into a Bruegel painting. Then I went back to relive my original emotions. The first thing that enchanted me was the orderly nature of things and life in the countryside. Towns and cities were a different, more intimate experience, with their narrow streets, omnipresent walls offering protection from the heat and shelter for people’s secrets and private lives, and the labyrinthine alleyways with covered souks full of exciting and unexpected encounters.’ Harry Gruyaert. Buy this print ‘When I visited Morocco in the 1970s, it was love at first sight. I felt like I’d stepped into a Bruegel painting. Then I went back to relive my original emotions. The first thing that enchanted me was the orderly nature of things and life in the countryside. Towns and cities were a different, more intimate experience, with their narrow streets, omnipresent walls offering protection from the heat and shelter for people’s secrets and private lives, and the labyrinthine alleyways with covered souks full of exciting and unexpected encounters.’
• ‘I stumbled upon this while driving to Phoenix. I saw three men in white suits, walking in the desert. Amazed, I took the next exit to find out what was happening. The men were taking care of beehives in the middle of nowhere. In the unforgiving heat of the Arizona Desert, it looked like a scene from a moon expedition. I photographed them during their work, providing water and checking for parasite infestation. I asked them to pose together, to capture my initial impression of a lunar expedition.’ Jonas Kakó. Buy this print ‘I stumbled upon this while driving to Phoenix. I saw three men in white suits, walking in the desert. Amazed, I took the next exit to find out what was happening. The men were taking care of beehives in the middle of nowhere. In the unforgiving heat of the Arizona Desert, it looked like a scene from a moon expedition. I photographed them during their work, providing water and checking for parasite infestation. I asked them to pose together, to capture my initial impression of a lunar expedition.’
• ‘Paul Fusco makes notes on the quality and direction of light in a spot to which he thinks a subject might return, on the colours of the foliage, on features of weather and landscape that might affect the emotional tone of people in a picture. He has often returned over and over to a place at carefully calculated times, waiting for conditions to help him show what he feels about the place and the people in it.’ From Fusco & McBride, The Photo Essay: How to Share Action and Ideals Through Pictures, by Tom Moran. Buy this print ‘Paul Fusco makes notes on the quality and direction of light in a spot to which he thinks a subject might return, on the colours of the foliage, on features of weather and landscape that might affect the emotional tone of people in a picture. He has often returned over and over to a place at carefully calculated times, waiting for conditions to help him show what he feels about the place and the people in it.’
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