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PERSONAL

BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro. 2009. Marion and Atlas in the shower. "In 2008, my first child was born. Up until that point, my photographs as a 'war photographer' had been about the experiences of others in far away places. Now, for the first time, I found myself photographing my own family... my own experience. It was not a conscious decision. It was quite an organic and ordinary reaction, that of any new father. It didn't occur to me that these photographs had anything to do with my 'work'. But I now realize that these images were actually my life's work and that every photograph I had made up to that moment was just a preparation to make these photographs of my family." (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Christopher Anderson)

ATLANTIC CONVOY.

ATLANTIC OCEAN. 1941. A crewman of a Cunard freighter signals another ship of an Allied convoy en route to Great Britain from the U.S. Their ship is carrying seven airplanes, two torpedo boats, and twelve passengers who agreed to travel at their own risk. The captain and his crew are Norwegian and have crossed the Altantic many times during the war. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/ROBERT CAPA © INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY)

USA. NEW YORK CITY.

USA. New York City. 1950. - "You don't need to see the whole person to produce a portrait that feels revealing, personal and intimate. Sometimes, a suggestion or a small detail may fuel the imagination, taking the picture away from being a simple description and making it more real and significant." - Elliott Erwitt (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Elliott Erwitt)

SWITZERLAND. ZURICH. 1941.

SWITZERLAND. Zurich. 1941. Nude. "Breast with grid."..“There is war in Europe. In Switzerland, two people meet in the peaceful privacy of a photography studio — a vibrating mood. The photographer points a projector with a grid film onto the naked torso of the model. This photograph is taken...The 1940 diary of my father reads: ‘A beautiful woman resembles a flower - she is beautiful in its external form, she has vibrations and harmonyÖ But be happy with the beauty without searching for depth.' ” — Marco Bischof, son of Werner Bischof..COPYRIGHT NOTICE: These photographs are available for use solely for the promotion of the Up Close & Personal Magnum Square Sale in November 2015. Any usage outside of these terms must be agreed with Magnum Photos. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Werner Bischof)

DENMARK. 2010.

DENMARK. Copenhagen. 2010. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Jacob Aue Sobol)

KOLUMBIEN ALLTAG

COLOMBIA. La Esperanza, 2004, A father lies in a hammock with his son. - "In this picture, the relationship between a father and his young son reveals total intimacy with each other, and intimacy with the photographer who records that moment in time, who then transmits this feeling of intimacy with viewers wherever and whenever they see this photograph. This family was not rich in material things, but very rich in relationships, trust, and the kind of love that drives away fear. They are both at ease and completely comfortable in each other's presence without any selfconsciousness whatsoever. It doesn't get any better than that." - Steve McCurry (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Steve McCurry)

USA. NEW YORK CITY. 1987.

USA. Coney Island. The aquarium. Watching a beluga. 1987. "My daughter Marie and I discovered this beluga whale in at the New York Aquarium on Coney Island. I was in fact in New York for three weeks, attending that other aquarium, the Magnum Meeting. Little did my 11-year old daughter and I realise, at the time, that his beautiful animal was in fact 'Blanchon', the hero of a very famous Canadian documentary film, Of Whales, the Moon and Men, directed by humanist film-maker, Pierre Perrault. Eventually, Pierre became a dear friend. He was an incredible filmmaker, in the style of Leacock, Wiseman and Rouch. This image is like a cocktail of intimacy, bringing together my daughter, the great animal, and, subliminally, my friend Pierre, our shared passion for humanist approaches and documentary films. I remember the guard of the aquarium was furious because Blanchon was a very curious animal, clearly happy to see somebody so close to the aquarium in a place not usually allowed to tourists. The other tourists, politely standing where they were supposed to, looked on in envy..." - Jean Gaumy (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Jean Gaumy)

INDIA. DHARAVI SLUM.

INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. A little girl playing in Laxmi Chawl, a neighborhood of Dharavi. The little lightbulbs are put out for an upcoming neighborhood wedding. Dharavi is one of Mumbai's biggest and longest standing slums. Home to somewhere between 600 000 and one million people, it is a beehive of recycling and manufacturing industries. However, Dharavi sits on prime real estate right in the heart of the booming megapolis, and is in close vicinity to the new Bandra-Kurla Complex, a new financial hub. Dharavi is now scheduled for redevelopment, meaning everything in the slum, for good and bad, is set to be demolished. - "The girl playing alone beneath wedding lights in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is not the closest or rawest image I've taken. But it is somehow a subtly tender and magical moment, where I feel like I drift into this little girl's frame of mind for a second. Whenever I feel, I somehow am there with that person, and I feel something that connects me. That is what I define as an intimate image, more than if the picture is really up close or in your face." - Jonas Bendiksen (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Jonas Bendiksen)

JAPAN. 2004.

JAPAN. 2004. "Beyond the fundamental hypocrisy of photographic production that feeds on human misery with the pretence of disseminating information or raising awareness, the proliferation of compassionate iconography neutralizes discernment, tames brutal instincts, and induces the risk of safe intimacy and deceit under the autocratic reign of appearance. I choose to adopt hacker strategies, forging a secret, illicit, immoral language, deconstructing protocols built by the hegemonic ideology with the explicit intention of contaminating, perverting and destroying it. The act of photographing accepts no compromise: it involves pushing the physical limits of life and possessing the world through absorption and adsorption. Photography is a source of disorder because it carries within itself the seeds of action, unleashing the rage that makes bearable fear and desire. To be, to love, to think, to suffer are no longer enough. One has to be a saint, or a mad man." - Antoine d'Agata (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Antoine D'Agata)

SOUTH AFRICA. 1961.

South Africa. Gauteng. Johannesburg. Fordsburg. Affection between two people in a multi-racial cafe. 1961 - "While shooting for an African magazine in South Africa, I heard about this café on the outskirts of Johannesburg which had some great African musicians playing there at night. More interestingly for me perhaps was the rumour that whites were attending, this at a time when multi-racial gatherings were illegal in South Africa. I had just arrived. Standing in the doorway surveying the scene, I noticed the warm interplay between the African couple in front of the jukebox with a white guy at the table behind. Sometimes these moments catch one unprepared; happily for me I'd arrived with a camera around my neck and was able to capture the moment." - Ian Berry (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Ian Berry)

MARIUPOL. THE INVISIBLE TEAR.

UKRAINE. Mariupol. June 2, 2015. A student plays piano for her teacher during a year-end review at the music college..Located on the Azov Sea, some 100 kilometers from the rebel-held provincial capital Donetsk, Mariupol is seen as a key element of a potential land corridor from Russia to the Crimean peninsula. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Jerome Sessini)

USA. CHICAGO'S SOUTHSIDE.

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Tuesday Afternoon on South Halsted Street. - "When I spotted an interesting scene or situation, I didn't try to hide myself or my camera. Instead, I often approached the people involved. 'Please,' I said, 'pay no attention to me. Just keep doing what you're already doing.' Believe it or not, they usually did. Once I even photographed a veteran prostitute on the job with one of her regulars. They didn't mind. Afterward, when asked if I had gotten the pictures, I said that it had happened a bit fast; he then invited me to come back next Tuesday, when he would arrange for me to have all the time I needed." - Excerpt from: Wayne F. Miller, Chicago's South Side, 1946-1948 (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Wayne Miller)

CUBA. PARADISO.

CUBA. HAVANA. MAY 10, 2015. From the in-progress youth and electronica series: "Paradiso." - "This year I spent a couple of months in Havana photographing a crew of Cuban disc jockeys who live and work at night. We were curious about each other and I became very close to these young, streetwise romantics. They love their country but are also at odds with it. They want to work, but not for a system that does not properly reward that work. They, as many Cubans, know how to hustle but are not hustlers at heart; they do it to survive. Having a foreign friend is of much value to them because they want to communicate with the modern world. They saw me as a useful bridge and perhaps in exchange, allowed me to closely observe and record their lives. A preacher once told me that people want to have a voice, they want to share their opinion with the world, but not always a face. A face makes some things too real, too visible. But I have found that the kind of sharing that allows both parties to deeply benefit builds trust. With trust, sometimes that face is forgotten, the world is forgotten, and we are allowed to be present, to be intimate." - Michael Christopher Brown (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Michael Christopher Brown)

USA. "GOD INC." RELIGION IN THE USA

USA. New Smyrna Beach. The Church of God of Prophecy - Revival. Pentecostal revival held to attract new members for the small church. Here a nine year old boy is being "saved" by parents and preachers. Book "God, Inc." 1992. Religion and nationalism in the USA. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/CARL DE KEYZER)

ITALY. SAN CLEMENTE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL.

ITALY. Town of Venice. 1979. San Clemente psychiatric hospital. "Through the window, I noticed the room was empty. I didn't look for anyone. I made this image, and then I left." - Raymond Depardon(KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Raymond Depardon)

IRAN. TEHERAN. LOOK PROJECT. 2010-2011

IRAN. Teheran. 2010. - "In Iran I get a lot of requests to shoot the lives of young people, as if the way they live is that much different from other youths in the rest of the world. I photograph them in malls, driving cars and in cafes, but at some point I wanted to also expose their feelings. For a long time I juggled the idea of how to create a different way of intimacy. After some failed attempts, I decided to turn my own apartment into a studio, and have neighbours and friends come over to have their portraits taken. Naghmeh is one of the most popular young women in Tehran, she¿s beautiful, smart and funny. I took pictures of her in total silence. Suddenly, her face expressionless, tears started welling up in her eyes, as if she was trying to show me something. Afterwards she said goodbye quietly and left. - Later, when I had the image framed, one of the glass plates had a scratch on it and the framer asked if he could keep it. He hung it in his shop. Customers debated, wondering why she was so sad. 'You could write a book with all the stories people come up with when they see this portrait,' the framer told me. I never asked her why she cried." - Newsha Tavakolian (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Newsha Tavakolian)

TURKEY.

TURKEY. Aras. 2011. Cagan Sekercioglu prepares to release a Red-backed Shrike after banding it. - "I find that intimacy comes from conversation, and on good days that may lead to an unexpected moment. After watching bears eat from garbage dumpsters and collecting wolf scat from the forest, I ended up at Cagan Sekercioglu's bird banding station in a village near the Armenian border. Cagan is an ornithologist and conservation biologist. The challenge was to make a portrait of him together with the tiny birds his team was banding people and birds exist on different scales. At his suggestion, borne out of the time we spent together, I stood outside of his trailer while he released the tiny birds from inside." - Carolyn Drake (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Carolyn Drake)

GROSSBRITANNIEN.

GB. Wales. 1996. Windfall apples, a bath in the kitchen sink. "It's a hot summer day. My youngest son Billy, age two, is cooling off in the kitchen sink of his aunt's house in Anglesey, Wales. Windfall apples, from the orchard outside, lie on the draining board awaiting transformation into apple crumble. Phoebe, the gentle labrador, noses around the back door curious to see what¿s going on. Today, Billy is starting university. Time flies, but photographs allow our intimate moments to stay on as cherished memories. Photography that is intimate always conveys a sense of the photographer being not just there, but included, welcome, accepted." - Stuart Franklin (KEYSTONE/Magnum Photos/Stuart Franklin)

USA MUSIK JANIS JOPLIN

USA. San Francisco. 1968. Janis JOPLIN performing at The Fillmore. "Photographing Janis Joplin in concert was a very personal experience. I felt connected to her through my viewfinder. Joplin's performance was so intense that it has stayed with me since the moment in 1968 that I photographed her. Her passionate voice shocks the listener with its power, and I have used her voice as an inspiration for my photography, trying to shock my audience into feeling what I do when I snap a photograph." - Paul Fusco (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Paul Fusco)

THE GEOGRAPHY OF POVERTY - CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL VALLEY

USA. Allensworth, California. 2014. Fence post. Allensworth has a population of 471 and 54% live below the poverty level. "When I photograph a place, I return and return again; I drive the same roads, walk the same trails, eat the same food, sleep in the same rooms. Over time, everything becomes intimate and familiar: the smell of the air, the color of the dirt, the cut of a certain shadow, even the lines in someone's hand. I absorb it. Sometimes I can close my eyes, and I can still see it." - Matt Black (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/© Matt Black / Magnum Photos)

USA. NYC. "THE NEW YORK STORY."

USA. New Jersey. 1983. Downtown Manhattan with World Trade Center towers, seen from "lover's lane' in New Jersey. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Thomas Hoepker)

INDIA. LIFE IS ELSEWHERE. 2008.

India. 2008. Ani and Suniera, Varkala. - "I think intimacy is more about the photographer himself or herself and the state of being that he or she is in in the given situation, more than anything else. It is an extremely difficult word for me to describe really and I can only say that it is something that I feel through my instincts, that is if at all I feel it. In the end, it does not matter who or what I photograph or have an encounter with; it could be my mother, a stranger, a stray cat that happened to trust me enough to allow me to stay there in its presence or simply a joyful moment spent with friends in the sea. Ani and Suneira in Varkala." - Sohrab Hura (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Sohrab Hura)

ENGLAND. LONDON. BAYSWATER. LESBIAN LOVE. 1969

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Bayswater. Lesbian love. 1969 - "Photography is the perfect occupation for the shy person. The camera gives one an excuse to be somewhere and it provides something to hide behind. I am shy and come from a Chapel background-uptight. During the 60's, I had a very large flat in London which was continually full of 'staying' friends. One evening, by mistake, I opened the door on intimacy. I was extremely embarrassed and uncomfortable-they thought it very funny." - David Hurn (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/David Hurn)

USA. HITCHHIKERS

USA. Florida. 2010. Hitchhikers going to New Orleans. "I took this picture on the outskirts of Mobile, Alabama. My friend Christian and I had flown to Miami a few days prior after covering the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti that killed 150,000 people in 2010. I was upset that my pictures couldn't hint at the scale of the destruction I'd just witnessed. It felt too vast for photography. We decided to go to New Orleans, which felt like a good spot of purgatory before heading back home. A friend of Christian's joined us, and we headed north. As we neared the Alabama border Christian whipped the car over to pick up a pretty-looking hitchhiker. When we pulled up, her two companions and their dog ran out of the woods and jumped into the car. We stopped at a shack bar on stilts in the outskirts of Mobile and played pool. They said they would part ways from us. One of them had run into trouble in New Orleans and was wary of going back. I took this picture after leaving the bar. The girl leaned forward for a moment to get more comfortable and her hair fell over her eyes just as the late afternoon light began to shine through the clouds. I took a few frames and, as always, the moment was gone almost before I'd even noticed it." (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Peter van Agtmael)

PERSONAL. AMERICAN COLOR

USA. Florida. Daytona Beach. 1988. "American Color" p.32. "This photograph, which might be entitled 'First Encounter', was made on Main Street in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1988 during the annual Bike Week-when thousands of bikers pour into the small town to ride their bikes around and have fun. Main Street was lined with parked motorcycles, their owners perched on the seats watching the parade of roaring bikes go by. Looking for pictures, I had my eye on this female biker with a beautiful body when a male with a beautiful body approached her. Cutting out the faces, I concentrated on the handshake: the first encounter of two bodies. When I left, they were engrossed in deep conversation. Who knows what happened after that?" - Constantine Manos(KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Constantine Manos)

USA. NYC. PANDORA'S BOX. 1995.

USA. New York City. 1995. Pandora's Box, The Dressing Room I. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Susan Meiselas)

PERSONAL. FUNERAL

GB. ENGLAND. Northampton. Funeral of my mother with my brother Thein and sister Seyna. 2001. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS)

CHINA 1992.

CHINA. Province of Guangdong. Town of Guangzhou. 1992. - "I like to feel close to the people I photograph. I want to establish a kind of trust and intimacy with them. This young woman was sitting in the front of a cab I boarded during one of my several trips to Guangzhou, China, in 1992. The safety grating protecting the driver divided us. She was really beautiful. Her sultry features were enhanced by the night lights, like in a movie. I'm sure I found the metal mesh annoying when I decided to take a picture of her, but its pattern created interesting contrasts on her face. Also, it prevented me from getting closer, perhaps too close, triggering some reaction in her, maybe a smile, or a self-conscious laugh. She was nearby and yet unreachable. She was so close, yet so far. Untouchable. That is how I remember the moment, but my memory is failing me here. Was she just another passenger, a stranger, or were we riding the cab together? The element of mystery, noticeable and enduring, is what still attracts me in that picture. I don't know anything about her, yet I was close to her then." - Patrick Zachmann (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Patrick Zachmann)

USA. NEW YORK. MODEL.

USA. NEW YORK. New York. Drew Beyfuss. 1956. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Eve Arnold)

"I AM ABOUT TO CALL IT A DAY".

I AM ABOUT TO CALL IT A DAY. "By asking people I accidentally meet on the street to spend the night in their home, I often enter in the intimacy of people's lives. I like to photograph the moment when the night falls and people return to their homes, close their doors and put their nightwear on. In between two days, when no one is looking, there is a little moment where the facade falls away. I find it very difficult to choose my most 'intimate photograph', because I experienced so many. People often shared their bed with me; I fell asleep while children and mamas were holding me tight, in a single-bed next to a very old Mexican woman who prayed for my family in the middle of the night. People invited me into Russian saunas and into American hot-tubs and when I was welcomed by an old couple in Bosnia, the man of the family died that night. But after consideration, I would like to share a photograph with you that is part of my book I am about to call it a day. While being together in ...'s bedroom and after photographing her, I realized something important. Photography is about sharing, it is a conversation that goes in two directions. It was not only me that observed her, but through me, she looked at herself. After a long time together in her bedroom and after this picture was taken, the woman stood up in her white night dress, crying intensely; she gave me a long hug and went to sleep." - Bieke Depoorter (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Bieke Depoorter)

ISRAEL. KIBBUTZ DEGANIA BETH/KIBBUTZ KINNERET.

A Passover 'Seder' in the dining room of the Kibbutz Kinneret. 1979. - "Communal dining room, Kibbutz Kinneret, 1979. The dining room is the heart of the collective settlement called Kibbutz. It is noisy and lively. I sneaked out to capture this intimate moment: we photographers always try to capture the elusive moment of intimacy." - Micha Bar-Am (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Micha Bar Am)

USA. NEW YORK CITY. HARLEM.

USA. New York City. 1956. Harlem. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Leonard Freed)

EDOUARD DERMIT AND COCTEAU'S TAPESTRY

Edouard DERMIT and COCTEAU's tapestry "Judith et Holopherne". France. Milly-la-Forêt. 1948. Photographed in Cocteau's country house, Edouard DERMIT ("Doudou"), Cocteau's friend, became an actor, starred in some of Cocteau films, and was later his heir. P-FR-PIC-004A (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Herbert List)

"CALIFORNIA TRIP" BY DENNIS STOCK

USA. California. Couple in Novato. 1968. - "Dennis used to say a photograph is sixty percent about the subject and forty percent about the photographer. So what does this 1968 image Dennis entitled Adam and Eve say about Dennis and his view of intimacy? He was doing a photo essay about California and what he called California's state of mind. He came to see California in the 1960s as a spiritual, technical and aesthetic 'lab' that profoundly influenced the rest of the country. He hadn't always liked this 'lab', initially calling it chaos; a place where up was down and right was left. But as the years passed and he spent more time working and shooting in California, Dennis changed and so did his images. One of the most striking things about this photograph is how much the male subject in the picture physically resembled Dennis. This image, always one of Dennis's favorites, captured an ideal Dennis not only admired but also aspired to. The notion that romantic love, intimacy, surrounded by a verdant optimism, could raise you above the chaos of the 'lab' delighted Dennis and it became a philosophy he embraced for the rest of his life." - Susan Richards, widow of Dennis Stock (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Dennis Stock)

LONDON. WORLD WAR II. 1940.

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Steel helmets were worn by all who could get them. Life in London during The Blitz of World War II in1939-40. 1940. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/GEORGE RODGER)

MISCELLANEOUS. INTIMACY.

Intimacy. 2012. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/A. ABBAS)

BARCLAY'S BANK. GALLERY OF LIFE PROJECT. 1999.

G.B. ENGLAND. 1999. "It was a while ago but I was on a shoot as part of a branding campaign. My assistant had a friend who had identical, young, blonde, twin boys and we used them in a picture. After the shoot, as we were packing up, I found myself alone in the kitchen with the ironing board, the washing, the flowery curtains, and a large bear lying upside down in the middle of the floor as if dead. I quietly set up my tripod and took a picture. It felt as if I was stealing a moment, and if anyone had come in, I would have had to explain why I was doing it - However, this was the image that came out of that day in the English countryside, it felt secret, surreal and devious; as if I had stolen something intimate and personal: the domestic landscape of a mother doing her best to keep life in order." - Peter Marlow (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Peter Marlow)

SAUDI ARABIA. 2009.

SAUDI ARABIA. Jeddah. A saudi woman lazes at home. 2009 (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Olivia Arthur)

GB. WALES. 1996.

GB. Wales. 1996. Windfall apples, a bath in the kitchen sink...“It's a hot summer day. My youngest son Billy, age two, is cooling off in the kitchen sink of his aunt's house in Anglesey, Wales. Windfall apples, from the orchard outside, lie on the draining board awaiting transformation into apple crumble. Phoebe, the gentle labrador, noses around the back door curious to see what's going on. Today, Billy is starting university. Time flies, but photographs allow our intimate moments to stay on as cherished memories. Photography that is intimate always conveys a sense of the photographer being not just there, but included, welcome, accepted.” — Stuart Franklin..COPYRIGHT NOTICE: These photographs are available for use solely for the promotion of the Up Close & Personal Magnum Square Sale in November 2015. Any usage outside of these terms must be agreed with Magnum Photos. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/)

GREECE. 2000.

GREECE. Karpathos island, Olymbos village. Thetekoula DARGAKI. 2000. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Nikos Economopoulos)

USA. JOHN F. KENNEDY CAMPAIGNING.

USA. New York City. 1960. Senator John F. KENNEDY and Jacqueline KENNEDY campaign during a ticker tape parade in Manhattan. (KEYSTONE/Magnum Photos/Cornell Capa © International Center of Photography)

FRANCE. PARIS. 5TH ARRONDISSEMENT.

FRANCE. Paris. 5th arrondissement. Students in a chain passing cobble stones for the barricades, Gay Lussac Street. May 10th 1968. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/BRUNO BARBEY)

CHINA. JIAMUSI. HEILONGJIANG. 1981.

CHINA. Jiamusi. Heilongjiang. 1981. Mid winter swim who broke the ice of the Songhua Jiang River. Between November and April about 10 such swimmers dive into the river during their lunch hour. The water is about 0 degrees centigrage, the air is minus 25 to 35 degrees. ..“Between October 1978, and January 1985, I was given incredible access to China. I visited all the provinces of that vast country in 45 visits. Believe it or not, I was a guest of none but Chou En-lai. Donbei, the Northeast of China, played a historically important role in the Sino-Japanese relationship. Imperial Japan established its puppet regime of Manchuria in 1932. And everybody knows how the Paicific War ended in August, 1945. That is why I paid special attention and emphasis to the region...Donbei is very characteristic in the winter. It gets so cold in mid-winter that the temperature in Jiamusi, the center of China's timber industry, reaches 35 degrees below zero centigrade easily. Songhua Jiang River runs through the center of the city: it completely freezes over. Even a tank, I believe, can cross the river...Every morning, courageous swimmers jump in the river for a minute or two. No surprise that their skin turns red immediately. But the onlookers - including this photographer with a winterized Leica - felt even colder, in sympathy.” — Hiroji Kubota..COPYRIGHT NOTICE: These photographs are available for use solely for the promotion of the Up Close & Personal Magnum Square Sale in November 2015. Any usage outside of these terms must be agreed with Magnum Photos.... (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Hiroji Kubota)

NORTHERN IRELAND. THE MAZE PRISON.

NORTHERN IRELAND. The Maze Prison. Waste ground and sports centre. 2003..“It was my second shoot at the former Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, and I hadn't a clue how to photograph it, what camera, what approach.... I was lost, and at that time, completely insecure about my own practice... Could I ever find my own voice, make something that could be actually good?..On a winter morning, alone in the 360-acre prison site (ready for new prisoners in case the Peace Process collapsed), standing with a 5 x 4 inch plate camera that I had bought for virtually nothing in a bomb damaged sale in Belfast when I was 14. I set up the camera and focused, my head under the cloth, and realised, I was in the place where the bomber mostly likely had spent a lot of time.” — Donovan Wylie..COPYRIGHT NOTICE: These photographs are available for use solely for the promotion of the Up Close & Personal Magnum Square Sale in November 2015. Any usage outside of these terms must be agreed with Magnum Photos. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Donovan Wylie)

USA. NEW YORK CITY. 1995.

USA. New York City. 1995. Pandora's Box, The Dressing Room I. ..Text in process...COPYRIGHT NOTICE: These photographs are available for use solely for the promotion of the Up Close & Personal Magnum Square Sale in November 2015. Any usage outside of these terms must be agreed with Magnum Photos. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Susan Meiselas)

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The reception is over and the guests have left. All except a young couple - two of the young people invited to the Nobel ceremonies to give them a chance to meet the great intellects of the day. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/David Seymour)

USA. SAN FRANCISCO. 2002. "RUBY 1ST DAY OF SPRING."

USA. San Francisco. 2002. "Ruby 1st day of Spring." Ruby outside pulling curtain...“On May 1, 2000, my Mom died suddenly (it was due to a doctor's negligence but that's a whole other story)...My daughter Ruby and I got on a plane to Florida to attend the funeral, pack up the house, and disperse her belongings. The day after the funeral while my sister, brother and I were clearing out my parents home, I looked up and saw Ruby playing amongst the curtains. She was 8 then, and having her there is what helped me through it all. Photography did too.” — Jim Goldberg..COPYRIGHT NOTICE: These photographs are available for use solely for the promotion of the Up Close & Personal Magnum Square Sale in November 2015. Any usage outside of these terms must be agreed with Magnum Photos... (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Jim Goldberg)

GREECE. ANTIPAROS ISLAND. 2014.

GREECE. Antiparos Island. 2014...“I took this photo on the small Greek island of Antiparos. What is this woman thinking about, who is she, and what is her history with this island?..Her hair, her head dissolve into the white wall, just as their story dissolves in the sands of time. Such minimalism speaks to me, it puts me in a state of blissful melancholy, plunging me into thought and clearing my thoughts at the same time. It makes me think about my ancestors, my children, the fact that I'm a part of a whole, and the whole is me, allowing me to dissolve in the universal matter and spirit...This choice of photo, from the endless variety of my archives, is more a choice of audience: those who feel the same emotion in this moment.” — Gueorgui Pinkhassov..COPYRIGHT NOTICE: These photographs are available for use solely for the promotion of the Up Close & Personal Magnum Square Sale in November 2015. Any usage outside of these terms must be agreed with Magnum Photos (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/Gueorgui Pinkhassov)

ITALY. VENICE. 2009

ITALY. Venice. 2009. (KEYSTONE/MAGNUM PHOTOS/CHIEN-CHI CHANG)