“Put me down with people, and it’s just overwhelming,” Bubley exclaimed in an interview. Like most great photojournalists, she found her art in everyday life.
Esther Bubley: Put Me Down With People
March Issue, 2024
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Beneath the Streets — Helen Levitt’s Subway Photographs
“Helen Levitt’s pictures haunt like intimate ghosts – ever present, never forceful, curious, receptive.”
February Issue, 2024
All of the articles from the past month for people who like to savor their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Alexandria, The End of the Affair
“I sit on the wall and watch a fisherman wrangle his net; the sea is dark and a little choppy, and I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness.”
Drawing with Light: An Interview with Ralf Jacobs
There are patterns all around us that we recognize in Jacobs’ work. Similarly, with music, we respond to sound waves, we can’t see them but they affect our emotions. Looking at Jacobs’ drawings, it feels that he’s captured something no one else has: A new way of looking at something that we always see but don’t always notice.
Cones
“The cones began to be symbolic surrogates for human presence … or absence. Their serendipitous placement and interaction in their surroundings was somewhat surreal.”
All I Had to Do Was Listen: An Interview with Torsten Richter
“Sometimes I’m following the light. Sometimes I’m following the clouds. And sometimes I’m looking for something I do not know beforehand.” An interview with Torsten Richter
In Search of a Smile
I was in the partial state of not knowing if I was awake or still dreaming; it had been another fitful uncomfortable night, mostly involving a donkey braying and the snores and […]
The Eye of the Needle
The microminiatures of Hagp Sandaldijian, from The Museum of Jurassic Theology
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