As part of our #CultureIsNotCancelled campaign, we celebrate Magnum Photos’ annual Square Print Sale which offers the chance to buy a piece of photographic history for one week only, starting today
Magnum Photos’ biannual Square Print Sale has become something to look forward to for photography fans the world over: for one week, the photographic agency presents a selection of museum-quality prints available to buy for just $100. For the next iteration of the sale – which begins today, until Sunday April 12, 2020 and is in collaboration with global photography network The Everyday Projects – photographers have selected images that speak to the theme of ‘Turning Points’, a notion that seems prescient in the wake of swift changes brought about for much of the world during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Here, as part of our AnOthermag.com’s #CultureIsNotCancelled campaign, we celebrate the Square Print Sale – which continues in light of gallery and exhibition closures the world over – as a way to carry on engaging with and supporting image-makers whose work has been otherwise interrupted and discovering the vast span of international talent that Magnum represents. (Magnum photographers will also donate 50 per cent of their proceeds from the Turning Points Square Print Sale to Médecins Sans Frontières’ Covid-19 emergency response.)
From a selection of 120 powerful images, the AnOther Magazine team picks their favourite photographs from the sale – baby animals, friends dancing and sublime nature scenes very much included.
1. Susannah Frankel, Editor in Chief (lead image)
“Baby animals seem more soothing and sweet than ever now.”
“I love how, if you didn’t have the caption – or the plastic bag in the foreground – this could be an image from any point in the past 150 years. It has an amazing timelessness.”
“A contemplative moment. Taken in Senegal during Goldberg’s travels for his project Open See; a title coming from one man’s assertion that ‘in the open see (sic) there is no border’.”
“I love this one because the monochromatic landscape allows us to see even more details in the image. The amusing way the reflection has been flipped almost creates faces in the reflections, and appeals to my own belief in guardians of nature – think fae, spirits of trees et cetera. Every time I look at it I spot something different!”
“This is what it’s going to be like when we come out of self-isolation. (Also, it reminds me of my favourite vintage AnOthermag.com article, Animals Leaping.)”
“The thought of people lining the rail tracks to see JFK’s funeral train as it ran through America is such a powerful image. Particularly now – this kind of national unity seems like something from a truly bygone era. And the composition of the photograph itself – the colours, the movement – is really beautiful.”
“I love the contrast between the girl’s fed up expression and celebratory pink hair. A perfect snapshot of the ennui many of us may be experiencing in this time.”