Next Drop: Winter 2024

Signature
Drop

Signature Drop is a quarterly release of time-limited works. Each drop features a collaboration with one or more Magnum photographers, producing exclusive items like posters or prints, hand-finished with signatures, writing, or personal touches. Editions are available for 72 hours only with no surplus. Pieces are specially crafted for Magnum, emphasizing the independence and artistic spirit intrinsic to the collective.
For the second Signature Drop, Jim Goldberg selected two images from his series Coming and Going, printed as separate 18x24” posters, further transforming each with tools and techniques like markers, pastels, and smudging.

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Signature Drop #002: Jim Goldberg

For this Drop, Jim Goldberg wields various media to hand-personalize two 18x24" posters. The image selections emerge from his latest series, Coming and Going, Goldberg’s autobiographical opus reexamining and reimagining a lifetime of images through techniques like montage, annotation, collage, and reconstruction. The first, “The Last Day of Summer 1997” is a matte black-and-white poster punctuated by a color Polaroid with a glossy overlay. The second poster, “My Dream” is a dense collage of cut-up contact sheets surrounding a photogram of a child.

Both are hand-finished by Goldberg.
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Signature Drop #003: Sohrab Hura

Coming Winter 2024.

Signature Drop #002: Jim Goldberg

For this Drop, Jim Goldberg wields various media to hand-personalize two 18x24" posters. The image selections emerge from his latest series, Coming and Going, Goldberg’s autobiographical opus reexamining and reimagining a lifetime of images through techniques like montage, annotation, collage, and reconstruction. The first, “The Last Day of Summer 1997” is a matte black-and-white poster punctuated by a color Polaroid with a glossy overlay. The second poster, “My Dream” is a dense collage of cut-up contact sheets surrounding a photogram of a child.

Both are hand-finished by Goldberg.

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Signature Drop #001: Newsha Tavakolian

Newsha Tavakolian directly engaged her archive by hand-signing and titling 16x20” prints of “Girl Smelling a Rose.”
The five-image portrait from the late 1990s features a girl immersed in the scent of a red rose. The interplay between past and present emerges through a succession of altered images that urge viewers to look again, mirroring Tavakolian’s perspective shift from external observation toward self-reflection.
The images within this piece are part of Tavakolian’s recent series “And They Laughed at Me,” in which she critically examines photographs she took during the first three years of her career, from 1996 to 1999.
This inaugural Signature Drop ran from July 26 to July 29, 2024.