Next Drop: Spring 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 third Signature Drop, Sohrab Hura provided his pick of the litter, hand-signing a unique diptych titled “Cats and Stars.” Each poster in the set features a feline looking back to the viewer — one a photograph and the other a painting.
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Signature Drop #003: Sohrab Hura

For this Drop, Sohrab Hura hand-signs a diptych of unique posters titled “Cats and Stars.”
The black-and white-photograph “Francoise, the Neighborhood Cat” is a selection from Hura’s 2015 book Life Is Elsewhere. The bright green and purple gouache painting called “The Cat Tried to Run Away but Was Found and Taken Home” emerges from Hura’s most recent work using various media outside photography. The image is currently on view as part of his show Mother at MoMA PS1 in New York, Hura’s first U.S. solo exhibition.
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Signature Drop #003: Sohrab Hura

For the third Signature Drop, Sohrab Hura provides his pick of the litter, hand-signing a unique diptych titled “Cats and Stars.” Each poster in the set features a feline looking back to the viewer — one a photograph and the other a painting.
This drop is live until December 9, 2024.

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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 were hand-finished by Goldberg. This drop was available from September 20 to September 23, 2024.

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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.