Remember that cool post-WWII picture I received from my friend Kim in the form of Internet flotsam the other day? It's not that; it's a famous picture by photojournalist Michael Nash that is part of the holdings of the Associated Press. I'm very pleased to report that I've reached an informal agreement in principle with the AP to offer a small, high-quality print of that picture as a TOP print offer. We'll make the print from a high-quality scan made directly from the original 1946 negative.
Potentially cool news. That is one great photograph-on-photography.
Mike
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Huzzah! A print offer for me!
And it fits the TOP aesthetic: a non-limited, non-vintage print.
Posted by: Softie | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 03:19 PM
!!!
Posted by: Mike | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 07:12 PM
Count me i!, that's a great image!!!
Posted by: Iran Ramirez | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 07:39 PM
I have not yet participated in a TOP print sale, but you may have me on this one.
Posted by: Robin Dreyer | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 08:14 PM
Hi from New Zealand, Mike et al. My favourite blog.
How big will the print be? (we're metric here but I'm sure I can do a conversion on my cellphone!) - and how much to post etc. to NZ?
Regards - John
Posted by: Auck1and | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 08:52 PM
This is the "Sun Shade" picture right? I'm in ;)
Posted by: DT | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 10:53 PM
You mean "hot photog-on-photog action", right?
Posted by: lith | Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 01:40 AM
Great idea. The best display position among my prints goes to your "Migrant Mother" digital print from an LOC scan, done back in the earliest days of TOP print sales. It's a better print of that image than any other I have seen since. Are you aiming for roughly 8x10" again?
scott
Posted by: scott kirkpatrick | Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 01:51 AM
That b&w shot reminded me of another post-WW2 photo taken by Robert Capa in the Soviet Union and published in Steinbeck's Russian Journal:
http://www.fotointern.ch/archiv/2011/04/30/du-ausgabe-mai-2011-doppelter-blick/
It may not quite have the same qualities as Nash's 1946 Warsaw image (specifically, the bittersweet, tragicomic juxtaposition of the kitchy-idillyc background and the ruined buildings), but it strikes me as the latter's twin brother nevertheless.
Speaking of Capa and of the post-war generation's - deeply human and very natural - desire to at least temporarily exclude the grim realities of their war-torn environment from their lives, here is another Robert Capa photograph he took during his 1948 visit to his native Budapest:
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=SearchDetailPopupPage&VBID=2K1HZOH69WCFK&PN=10&IID=2S5RYD1K5A_B
Posted by: Zoltán Árva-Tóth | Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 05:34 AM
I love metaphotos. I'm in.
Posted by: David Boyce | Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 06:42 AM
Please put me on the list for the Warsaw photo. We have good friends who immigrated from Warsaw in the early 1950's: our friends at ages 10 and 12. Their mother and aunt are still living here in Chicago. I will let the kids decide if they want to give a copy to the old timers; the mother does not like to talk of the war and the aunt has the sensible attitude the "Nazi, Communist same same". (sounds better in a Polish accent.)
Posted by: al formerly from chgo | Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 04:49 PM