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From Dollys to doggies: the Magnum Square Print sale – in pictures

To celebrate 75 years of the iconic agency, a new Magnum Square Print Sale – the second of three – features Turkish baths, ballet dancers and Marilyn Monroe

@mlestone Main image: Good golly Miss Dolly … a Dolly Parton lookalike competition in Phoenix, Arizona, 1979 Photograph: David Hurn/Magnum Photos

Tue 18 Oct 2022 02.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 20 Oct 2022 11.40 EDT

  • Scarecrow in a rice field, Tulas, India, 2015

    To celebrate 75 years of Magnum, the celebrated photography agency is running three sales exploring their illustrious history. Following the success of Precedents, this second instalment is called Now and is in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery. There are 122 signed or estate-stamped, museum-quality 6” x 6” prints available in the Magnum Shop. An exhibition of the full collection of prints will take place at the Photographers’ Gallery, London. The exhibition runs until the closing of the sale on 23 October 2022. Click to buy this print

  • Republic of Yakutia, Siberia, From the series Tiksi, 2013

    Evgenia Arbugaeva: ‘It was an unusually warm and sunny day in June, but the sea was still covered in ice. Tanya braided her hair and wore her favourite dress. A stray dog was following us on our walk, and Tanya liked to imagine that this dog was hers; she had always dreamed of having one. Looking at this image almost 10 years later, I can’t help but feel nostalgic for my hometown, Tiksi, and also sad thinking about the sea and the ice and how it all continues to change painfully fast in the Arctic.’ Click to buy this print

  • Marilyn Monroe opening the USA-Israel Football International at Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. New York, 1959

    Gerry Badger from the 2012 book Marilyn by Magnum: ‘For many, Marilyn Monroe represents the archetypal Hollywood story, the girl of a modest background making good. The shop girl, the waitress, or the secretary becoming a star, an icon of the silver screen.’ Click to buy this print

  • L’échelle à la lune, 2022

    Paul Cupido: ‘My affinity for the natural world was born out of my childhood spent on the Dutch island of Terschelling. This experience inspired my interest in reflecting the fleetingness of life through the changing seasons – the ebb and flow of tides and the cycles of the moon.’ Click to buy this print

  • Dolly Parton lookalike competition, Phoenix, Arizona, 1979

    David Hurn, interviewed by Bill Jay, from Arizona Trips, 2017: ‘I found Arizona a peculiar state of contradictions. It boasts of being the most rightwing state in America, yet the Arizonans I met were among the friendliest and most generous people anywhere in the world. It is the driest state, yet boasts more boats per capita than any other. Its citizens live in luxury homes, bursting with every conceivable labour-saving gadget, yet still tote guns as though they are in the wild west of 100 years ago.’ Click to buy this print

  • A boy playing with cardboard armour, Mdhilla, Tunisia, 2015

    The images from each of the three Magnum Square Print Sales form a triptych around the wider theme of ‘Then, Now, Next’. For the second sale of the series, photographers and estates were asked to select an image from their archive that stands out to them today: an image perhaps that, in retrospect, they feel was pivotal in their career; an image that reminds them of an experience that has stood the test of time; an image they feel captures their photographic voice within the storied 75-year old Magnum archive. Click to buy this print

  • My mother, photographed on Mare Island, Vallejo, California, 2016

    Carolyn Drake: ‘Several years ago, I was asked to photograph my mother in an expensive red dress. I was sceptical about the idea at first — I didn’t think of my mom as someone who would feel comfortable in designer clothes, and I doubted she would enjoy being photographed. As is often the case, I was wrong.’ Click to buy this print

  • Africanis 12. Richmond, Northern Cape, South Africa, 2009

    Daniel Naudé: ‘This portrait formed part of my first body of work that introduced me to the world of art photography. After my first encounter with the Africanis dogs, I started taking a series of photographs of them. I set out on numerous journeys into the rural areas of South Africa over a period of four or five years. Each portrait offered me a similarly ecstatic encounter. Click to buy this print

  • A hunter and his dog sled, Tiniteqilaaq, Greenland, 2000

    Jacob Aue Sobol, from the book James House, 2022: ‘This image of James on his dog sled is from 2000 when I lived in Eastern Greenland. I was trying to become a hunter and a fisherman while taking pictures of the life I shared with the people living there. James was my friend when I lived in Tiniteqilaaq. He taught me how to spot seals and use the tools of a hunter. He taught me when to speak and when to be silent. How to be present. James was always full of laughter and care — a person of warmth and embrace.’ Click to buy this print

  • Children imitating the photographer, Bakodjikorone, Mali, 1994

    Abbas: ‘Those who, like me, were born in one country, grew up in another, studied in a third, launched their career in a fourth, and who now travel more than six months a year, don’t have the luxury of witnessing their uncles and aunts grow old, of learning from them. It’s Magnum which substitutes this family.’ Click to buy this print

  • Town of Palermo, Sicily, 1963

    Bruno Barbey: ‘I wanted to capture the spirit of the nation, to present a portrait of Italians photographically. I criss-crossed Italy from north to south, staying each time for three weeks, returning to Paris, developing and examining the images, and then leaving again for another region.’ Sixty years on from this image, French publisher Delpire & Co will publish a book with new photographs, chosen by Barbey before he died. Click to buy this print

  • Cliftonville Lido, Margate, 2020

    Rob Ball: ‘The coastline has been central to my photographic practice since I relocated to the seaside 15 years ago. I’ve been drawn not to the epic natural landscapes and shifting tides, but to seafront culture, the ways in which we shape our coastline in the name of pleasure. In many ways, Margate has been a base for my practice and acts as a beacon for the changes in fortunes of coastal towns as they go through a period of repair and regeneration based on renewed interest and investment.’ Click to buy this print

  • Bathers relaxing at the Hammam (Turkish Baths), Istanbul, Turkey, 2020

    Sabiha Çimen: ‘Celebrations can be big or small, private or public. Sometimes they honour the past and look forward to the future, but they are always a gift to the present moment of happiness, the here and now with friends and family.’ Click to buy this print

  • Lebanon, Beirut, 2015

    Myriam Boulos: ‘This picture is part of my series Nightshift. I started this series when I was 21, as a young woman discovering the patriarchal world we live in.’ Click to buy this print

  • Freya, Hull, 2017

    Olivia Arthur: ‘I took this image of Freya when she was a teenager and aspiring dancer. It was right at the beginning of the work that I have been making for some years now that looks at the relationship we all have with our bodies. Freya wrote me this: “I was fairly new to ballet but I was thrilled with the photos because I felt they illustrated a sense of stillness and peace which contradicts the often stressful fast-paced movements of dance.”’ This image is included in the Magnum at 75 exhibition at Magnum Gallery, London until 6 January 2023. Click to buy this print

  • Guerrero, Mexico, 2020

    Yael Martínez: ‘Dawn rises and I look through my window at the first rays of the sun; I feel them on my skin and my blood gets warm. I hear how the wind passes through the windows of the house, how the cold gets through these blankets. Last night I had a dream, like those I had when my daughters came into this world. Those dreams felt as real as the moments of now. I feel like I am asleep in a dream that mixes with reality. We are probably not real, and we are just living the dream of someone who was before us.’ Click to buy this print

  • The Explorer, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2002

    Alessandra Sanguinetti: ‘The day I made this photograph, Belinda was gathering eggs and holding each one up for the sun to shine through them. That way she could tell if they were fertilised or not. Once she chose the good ones, she placed them on the kitchen table and pretended to be an egg doctor while her cousin stood behind her holding up a bedspread. Twenty years later, Belinda now lives on a farm with her husband and two children; she raises hens and now it’s her daughter Valentina who inspects the eggs.’ Click to buy this print

  • From the series Bright Corners, Maine, 2020

    Tom Butler: ‘Bright Corners is an ongoing series of self-portraits made in my attic in Portland, Maine. I make artwork about the relationship between hiding and performing; this project, started during lockdown, is about reinventing my body in the most private corners of my house. I don’t use any digital tools to create these effects; instead, I re-edit myself through careful camera settings, masking and mirrors, tricks not unfamiliar to Victorian spirit photographers or the Surrealists.’ Click to buy this print

  • Bolshoi Ballet. USSR, 1958

    Cornell Capa, from the 1992 book Cornell Capa: ‘My time in the Soviet Union was a strange interlude. I was not mistreated in any sense, but the atmosphere, the penetrating cold, the sombre mood of the people, the belligerent and suspicious hostility to the foreigner with a camera, all contributed to a depression I never experienced anywhere else in all my travels. I have never felt more liberated or relieved than I did when I finally left. Despite this, I got more good pictures in those six weeks than during any other period in my career.’ Click to buy this print

  • Portrait of our ancient forefather, Baltic Sea, 1974

    Pentti Sammallahti: ‘In the 1970s, I often spent the end of May on a small rocky island on the Baltic Sea. There were ponds on the island where toads had their coupling seasons. At nightfall, every so often the toads would raise their heads above the water, calling their darlings. One day, while admiring that enchanting love theatre, a toad appeared in front of me. We wondered at each other a while, until by croaking he gave me a hint to photograph. I quietly laid the camera close to the water and pushed the button.’ Click to buy this print

  • Children attend the wedding of the Al Taweel family in the streets of the Old City of Sana’a, Yemen, 2021

    Moises Saman: ‘Time and space seem to move at a slower pace in the Old City of Sana’a, but now, just like thousands of years ago, there is a certain rhythm to life that brings the community together despite years of war in Yemen. During the hot summer months, it is at night that this wondrous city comes to life. The sounds of music and dance from street wedding parties echo across the labyrinth of alleyways and narrow passages.’ Click to buy this print

  • Cedar enzyme bath, Osmosis Spa, From series Witness to Beauty, Freestone, c2010

    Sage Sohier: ‘For a brief period in her youth, my mother was a model. She was photographed by Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, and was once on the cover of Life magazine. As a child I grew up a witness to her beauty: I used to lie on her bed, with the dogs, and watch her try on clothes and study herself critically in the mirror. As I grew older, there was no use competing with her, so I assumed my position, quite happily, on the other side of the camera.’ Click to buy this print

  • Rime Ice, from the series Dear Franklin, 2016

    Rime Ice is an image from the project Dear Franklin, an epistolary novel that immerses readers in the history of the Chinese diaspora — from the fall of the Middle Empire until the 1950s. Through vintage images, press clippings, letters and photographs, Kurt Tong tells the life story of a cosmopolitan Shanghai man caught up in the tumult of political events in the first half of the 20th century in China. Click to buy this print

  • Untitled #2, from the series Iran, Untitled, 2013

    Gohar Dashti: ‘In the series Iran, Untitled, I reimagined the situation of my homeland in the midst of the unyielding desert. I carefully staged groups of people, tightly bound together but also isolated in the vast landscape. In this image, I showed a group of people on a carpet, celebrating a wedding in the middle of the wide desert. Crowded together, the couples don’t know what was past, or what is to come in the future.’ Click to buy this print

  • Ennedi, Ounianga Kebir, Chad, 1979

    Raymond Depardon: ‘A Chadian child recites his lessons on a blackboard. He is learning French at a school in Ounianga Kebir, in northeast Chad. Few students continue their studies — it’s a shame.’ Click to buy this print
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