Slate Magnum New Year Photos

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Today's Slate Magnum is especially good.

Photos of New Year by Magnum photographers; some older photos and some new.

I especially liked the Josef Koudelka and Chien-Chi Chang photos.
 
Just checked it out Jon. Some nice photos there. I especially like the Trent Parke photo as well those by Chang. Thanks for the link.
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Monz
 
Interesting, but somehow, looking at a bunch of drunks getting drunk just doesn't intrigue me that much.

Thanks for the link nonetheless.
 
I like Mark Power's "WARSAW, Poland—Soldiers celebrate New Year’s Eve, 1989". A lovely w/a photograph.
Thanks for posting the link.
 
Good morning, I really liked number 05 --the scene from Brazil. Looks like an epic.
Hope '09 is kind to all y'all.
Michael
 
That link was just to Slate Magnum for 1 January 2009.

The selection changes every day, and the generic link is Slate Magnum which will always show the current day.

There are usually about 20 themed photos by Magnum photographers every day.
 
i took a look on them, there are some i liked thanks for the link!

I wonder do these photographers not celebrate at all with their friends or family, or they just happen to celebrate out on the street and have a camera in the meantime?
 
Yep, some great shots, it makes me wonder though. Alot of those shots, well seen and executed, are very similar (in nature) too many shots I've seen taken by RFF members (dare I say some of my own ;) ). Sooooo, what makes a photographer come to be appreciated by the general public like these Slate guys. Is it their body of work?

BTW, I'm not comparing myself to Koudelka... for those that might call me a blasphemer ;)

Todd
 
Thanks for the link. I am a big fan of a lot of Magnum photographers for the constant high quality of work they produce.
But i think Todd made a valid point in this case.
With the exception of the Trent Park & Koudelka pictures ... there is not much in there that moves me and looks any better than the average snapshot .... Magnum or not ;)
These guys at Magnum are very good at editing and putting photos in a series. All these series look great as a whole because they make for a story....... but a lot of the individual photos making up the series would stay unnoticed in a lot of galleries/forums.
This is no criticism ... just my 2 cents to feed an interesting discussion.
 
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I agree with the above post. You can count on the fingers of one hand the strong stand-alone images. But all of the photographers represented have produced very strong work on a reliable basis, just not that many at New Years. Can you blame them? ;)
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
Todd.Hanz:


Try looking at Slate Magnum today and tell me seriously that you see this sort of quality in the RFF Gallery.
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I agree, the images shown today are better. It might be the subject matter or the era that they were shot in, Yesterdays images were kinda weak IMHO. Thanks for the link though.

Todd
 
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Thanks for the link. I should check out the Slate Magnum page more oftern. I tend to forget about it.

The Mark Power photograph was interesting. Quite different from other stuff that I've seen by him.
 
ClaremontPhoto said:
Todd.Hanz:


...and tell me seriously that you see this sort of quality in the RFF Gallery.
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Here's a few In todays gallery (1/2/09) alone that IMHO hold there own (and I really didn't mean to hijack your thread John, sorry).

onur77
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=99032

Mauro Scacco
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=99029

benmacphoto
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=99003&cat=all&limit=last7

again, sorry to have hijacked your thread.

Todd
 
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