Magnum sells prints

[Bill Pierce]

Some of you folks may be interested in this NY Times article...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/arts/design/02magnum.html?th&emc=th

 

[Chuck Albertson]

Saw this in the paper this morning. If and when they make some of the archives available to the public (exhibitions, etc.), it will be another excuse to go to Austin. Sort of like the UofA does with Gene Smith's archives. (Your name pops up in the Jazz Loft Project a few times, Bill!)

 

[Bill Pierce]

Your name pops up in the Jazz Loft Project a few times, Bill!

Sam Stephenson has done a wonderful job presenting Gene Smith's work, first with the Dream Street book and exhibit (The Pittsburgh Story) and now this in book, exhibit and radio programs.

For the folks who have no idea what we are talking about, there is The Jazz Loft book that Chuck refers to and

THE JAZZ LOFT PROJECT EXHIBITION / Opens February 17 in New York City

The Jazz Loft Project exhibition features never-before-displayed vintage black-and-white prints and rarely heard audio recordings by photographer W. Eugene Smith, who spent eight years documenting the jazz musicians, artists, and underground characters who inhabited the scene at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York. Curated by Sam Stephenson and Courtney Reid-Eaton of the Center for Documentary Studies, where the multiyear Jazz Loft Project is based, the exhibition features more than 200 images, several hours of audio, and 16 mm film footage of Eugene Smith working in the loft. Listening stations give access to re-mastered selections from Smith’s reel-to-reel tapes, which caught everything from rousing jam sessions to historic radio and TV broadcasts, loft conversations, and street noise.

The exhibit will be on display February 17 to May 22, 2010, in the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza. The exhibit will then travel to the Chicago Cultural Center, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, among other venues. MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: http://www.jazzloftproject.org/?s=exhibition

THE JAZZ LOFT PROJECT ON NPR: In a series of four reports on NPR's Weekend Edition, culled from a 10-part series on WNYC, Sara Fishko explores the stories of The Jazz Loft. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121109166


A VIDEO ABOUT THE JAZZ LOFT PROJECT BOOK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azzNblu3K8U

 

[shadowfox]

If and when they make some of the archives available to the public (exhibitions, etc.)

I can't help but wonder about the motivation.

People with too much money sometimes do weird things.

 

[Chuck Albertson]

I can't help but wonder about the motivation.

People with too much money sometimes do weird things.

Often so (be glad Mark Cuban didn't buy the lot), but in this case the purchasers gave an undertaking not to sell of the prints piecemeal. And Magnum retains the negs and all rights to the images.

The story also made the front page of Wednesday's Financial Times, with Steve McCurry's Afghan girl to illustrate it. The article inside
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d46d7ca6-1031-11df-841f-00144feab49a.html
quotes Magnum's MD as saying it was the first time they'd ever had a unanimous votes by the members on any issue.