The Magnum & World Press Photo Square Print Sale: Written by Light October 16–22
107 Square Prints priced at $110/£110/€120, available for one week only. Shop the collection now.
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Magnum Photos, artist Eleanor Macnair has recreated 10 photographs from the photo agency’s history in Play-Doh. Celebrating both the agency’s heritage and its contemporary artists, works by Elliott Erwitt, Jim Goldberg, Martin Parr, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alec Soth, Chris Steele-Perkins, Newsha Tavakolian, Thomas Dworzak and Paul Fusco have been re-imagined in vivid Play-Doh colors.
In the project Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh, Macnair remakes both familiar and lesser-known images in children’s modelling clay and posts the results to the internet via her blog and Instagram. A self-taught artist, her tools are amateur – off the shelf Play-Doh, a chopping board, a scalpel and an empty wine bottle as a rolling pin. After each sculpture is shot it is disassembled and the Play-Doh returned to respective pots to be used again for future renderings.
Imaginary CD cover for Sahar. Caspian Sea, Mahmoudabad, Iran, 2011 by Newsha Tavakolian
“This image intrigued me – why is the figure in the sea and what is she looking at? I wasn’t, at first, aware of the context of this series by Newsha Tavakolian, which focuses on women singers who are not allowed to perform solo nor produce their own cds due to Islamic regulations in Iran – and this image is an imaginary CD cover for the singer, Sahar. Even without this context I was drawn to this image as it seemed timeless – the lone Siren in the sea – a symbol of both beauty and danger.” — Eleanor Macnair
These prints come in an edition of 70 and are signedthe back of the print.
