Magnum Square Print Sale

[Steveh]

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.

 

[ian_watts]

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.

 

[Steveh]

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....

 

[filmtwit]

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.

 

[KM-25]

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...

 

[jsrockit]

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.

 

[bucs]

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...

 

[x-ray]

Thanks for posting. I bought the Bruce Davidson and Elliot Erwit.

 

[x-ray]

They're 6 inches

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Oh my. The Parr and Bendiksen are terrific. I bought them! Thanks for pointing this out.

 

[plummerl]

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]

I'm confused. Every print looks like 35mm .what gets croped? Does the full frame get printed on a 6x6 sheet?

 

[benmacphoto]

I'm confused. Every print looks like 35mm .what gets croped? Does the full frame get printed on a 6x6 sheet?

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.

 

[stephen.w]

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.

 

[Pherdinand]

ah, 6x6 inch? not cm? that's not that small 😀

 

[Pherdinand]

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🙂

 

[starless]

Museum quality but not museum size, unfortunately.

 

[Peter David Grant]

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...

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...

 

[ian_watts]

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.

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.

 

[Brian Atherton]

There some stunning images in this $100 collection, but I just don't have the wall space.