Summer Selection
An homage to summer and sunlight, featuring Trent Parke, Gregory Halpern, Martin Parr, and more
This Summer Selection, featuring exclusive posters and prints from the Magnum Store, embraces the glow of the sun, from languid beaches to radiant landscapes, and explores the subtle art of catching light.
“What’s beautiful for me about a photograph,” says Gregory Halpern, “is that it’s just light bouncing off of something at some point in the past, and when it works, you feel transported.” One of the ways Halpern transports us is through “cognitive dissonance” — a certain chemistry in which grace meets melancholy — grounded in his affinity with light. In Halpern’s work, the sun’s brilliance is gazed at, reached for, and transforms a moment into something mythical. Light is as much a subject as the people it illuminates in his photographs, creating complex revelations in a singular frame.
The beach, a long-awaited summer reward, is Martin Parr’s beloved stomping ground. “I have a long-established affection for the beach as a place to photograph,” he writes. “People can really be themselves as they sunbathe, play, swim and relax,” as in his portrait of a reclining sunbather in Benidorm, Spain. Constantine Manos, who famously captured the lively youth at Daytona Beach, agrees: “It is the most enjoyable place to take pictures of people, my favorite subject,” he said. Over a one-year period, Trent Parke gravitated to Adelaide’s beaches every day to photograph the sunsets, which featured in a 2015 exhibition in the city. He continues to capture the sun’s slow descent in his pursuit of the colors of time: crimson, magenta and gold.
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