Word: magnum
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...team of 20 from the renowned photo agency Magnum - including Elliott Erwitt and Steve McCurry - took pictures of South Koreans doing everything from playing to patrolling the Demilitarized Zone to praying at one of the world's largest churches. Over a year, at least 2,000 images organized under eight themes - from society and city to education and entertainment - were taken. A little over 430 are now on display. "We wanted to see how foreigners see our country," explains Ha Soo Jeong, senior coordinator for the "Magnum Korea" project. "We wanted to borrow their eyes and techniques...
...emaciated victim on her deathbed. But more and more people with AIDS now lead healthy lives because of antiretroviral drugs (ARVS). Thanks in part to organizations like the Global Fund, 3 million patients in developing countries receive ARVS. In a project titled "Access to Life," eight photographers from the Magnum Photos agency have captured images of patients before and after receiving treatment, providing a rare glimpse at how lives around the world are being transformed. For more pictures, go to time.com/access...
...point. This is just the start, and it's easy to see how the iPhone could take off. Once you control the platform, you call the tune. And if that happens, it will be Steve Jobs' magnum opus...
...bobbed, jester-like, amidst shoppers and fans, Palmer sat in silence behind the counter amid a crowd of quiet onlookers. A flower nestled in her red-corseted bosom, she concentrated on creating an acrylic rendering of the album cover for indie-legends Neutral Milk Hotel’s 1998 magnum opus, “In The Aeroplane Over the Sea,” to be given away to a fan in the store’s raffle.For Palmer, the day brings the Dresden Dolls full-circle. Set to release a compilation album entitled, “No, Virginia?...
...first Americans to be accepted by the international Magnum photo agency, photographer Burt Glinn captured several defining moments of the cold war, including Fidel Castro's triumphant march across Cuba and seldom-seen images of daily life in the Soviet Union. Glinn turned his lens on seemingly unlikely subjects, transforming subtleties into iconic moments, as in his 1959 photograph of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev before the Lincoln Memorial. Glinn attributed that shot--his best-known work--to chance. "I was late, and I couldn't get to where everybody else was," he explained. "The most important thing that...