Magnum Square Print Sale

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Steveh

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Has anyone else seen this and are you tempted? A chance to buy a signed museum quality Magnum print for $100 - the catch is they're 6x6 and only available this week. Or you can have all 51 prints for $3,800...

I can't decide if this is a good deal or not but there are several I'm tempted by - particularly the Antoine d'Agata and the Martin Parr, from his second roll on the Plaubel Makina he shot "The Last Resort" on.

Sorry, on the phone so can't do a link.
 
Link here.

Yes, the Parr choice is excellent and reminds me how good he once was. There are some other good ones too but I think the photographers' explanations about why each choice was a life changing photograph are often more interesting than the photograph itself. I have pondered whether to buy one but didn't realise until now how small they are.
 
Yes agree about the explanations - well worth a browse for those alone. I just asked my wife if she'd prefer the d'Agata or the Parr, she said she'd prefer a new garden bench....
 
I keep looking at the prints I like and noticing how they won't work if matted into a square (for me). Especially any of the shots on wider angle lenses. I guess I could cut them to create normal boarders, but then that doesn't seem right either.
 
I ordered the Bruce Davidson print for my signed copy of East 100th St. which is already selling for around $400-$500 without the print. I really need to insure my book collection...it is seriously getting up there...
 
I ordered the Alex Webb and Steve McCurry ones... I'm a sucker for color. They are tiny, but this is the closest I'll get to having a legit print.
 
I'm tempted too but I'm still contemplating because the prints are just 6x6

But even then these are signed prints. I have three days more to decide...
 
Thanks (I guess!) for this. I just realized that I had a copy of East 100th Street, as part of Bruce Davidson's five volume BLACK & WHITE. His print is now on order, as well as Alex Webb's (hard to pass up on his!).
 
randolph45 said:
I'm confused. Every print looks like 35mm .what gets croped? Does the full frame get printed on a 6x6 sheet?
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The print size is 6x6, but the image size is not cropped.
Its just printed on 6x6 paper.

I've ordered a few the last time they offered these print sales.
Nothing this round really jumps out to me.
 
It's sad that the enlarged preview available on the site will be substantially larger than the print received. Democratising the sale of prints is a great initiative, but these are simply too small. The other difficulty I have is that only about half of these seem to have been selected with a small print in mind, where IMO you need a single, bold motif to hold the viewer's attention.
 
emmm. I'm looking at the prints and getting slightly disappointed. I mean...Steve McCurry's cuban image is, e.g., a very very cliche Havana shot, every tourist who goes there takes a similar image. No, not one, but a hundred. Yesl, also in 2010 they did.
The Martin Parr... really?? it just looks like a scene at 10am on tuesday in my street...
Not a bad image but not really "significant" without the context/description.

Well this is my first reaction. Need to look at all of 'em- maybe i find a few i like:)
 
KM-25 said:
I ordered the Bruce Davidson print for my signed copy of East 100th St. which is already selling for around $400-$500 without the print. I really need to insure my book collection...it is seriously getting up there...
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Awesome! I've got just the book on order, but would have gotten the collectors edition in a flash!

Bit sad Koudelka doesn't have one for sale...
 
stephen.w said:
Democratising the sale of prints is a great initiative, but these are simply too small. The other difficulty I have is that only about half of these seem to have been selected with a small print in mind, where IMO you need a single, bold motif to hold the viewer's attention.
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Having looked through the collection more than once (which makes for quite an enjoyable read) I don't think I'm sufficiently taken with any of the selection to bother (the Parr probably comes closest to persuading me – it is really fine photograph – and I also like the Gruyaert, Dworzak and Steele-Perkins choices). All things considered, I think I'd rather spend the £70 on a couple of good photo books. Six inches square is essentially the same size as a square postcard and it'll only end up sitting in a drawer somewhere.
 
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