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'Freedom', The Magnum Photos Square Print Sale June 2018
PhotocriticEtcTiananmen Square. Beijing, China. 1989 © Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
Magnum Square Print Sale 4 to 8 June 2018
1968 was a seismic year of deep societal and political shifts–all in the name of freedom. International issues of freedom from oppression, freedom of speech, political, sexual, and religious freedom all came to the fore as student protests racked cities, declarations of independence were made, and in the USA particularly, the civil rights movement took hold, Martin Luther King was assassinated, while anti-Vietnam war protests concurrently emerged.
Fifty years on, the Magnum Photos June 2018 Square Print Sale examines both the definition of freedom, and the legacy of this quest for freedom through the work of Magnum’s photographers.
From Stuart Franklin’s photograph of Tiananmen Square in 1989, to Bruce Davidson and Leonard Freed’s images of the US civil rights movement, and Robert Capa’s photograph of the liberation of Paris in 1944, the project creates a potted history of the 20th century.
The print sale runs from Monday, 4 June 2018, at 13:00 (BST) until Friday, 8 June 2018, 23:00 (BST).
During the sale, and for five days only, over 70 archival-quality prints, signed by the photographers or estate-stamped by the estates, are available for just $100.
Magnum Square Prints are printed on 6-by-6-inch (15.24-by-15.24- cm) archival paper. They are not editioned by quantity, but editioned by time, as these items will not be made available outside the sale window. The images in each sale are always different, and will never be available in this format again.
