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New Competition: Your Magnum Edit

The photographer Elliott Erwitt. Photograph by Marion Wedekind. 1991 UPDATE: Contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone that entered. We will post the results next week and the finalist will be notified. ______________________________________________________________________ It's time for a new competition on the Magnum Blog! This time, we ask you to be a photo editor. The competition's theme is a quote and we want you to dig into our archive and create an edit of 10 to 14 images that illustrate the following quote. "A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction." - Oscar Wilde Think about sequencing, about the flow of your edit, about what it says and how it illustrates Oscar Wilde's quote. Be creative, give your best. The final winner will receive an amazing set of vintage Magnum poster prints, including one signed by the legendary Elliott Erwitt. Once you are sure about your edit go to this form, enter your Name, your E-Mail address and the image numbers of your edit in the order you would like them to appear. (Image numbers appear to the right of the image in the following format: PAR12345, NYC12345, LON12345, etc.) The deadline for your entries is Friday, April 10, 2009 at 12pm EDT. A group of Magnum photographers and staff will then select the three best and most creative of your edits. We will feature those three finalists on the blog and our blog viewers (yeah, that is you, you and you) will be able to vote on their favorites. The edit with the most votes will win the prize. It's as simple as that, it's fun and a good practice for your editing skills. Start editing now!

adi

Nice theme. I love to try editing the photos.

Debra Frieden

I entered. It was strange trying to manipulate order sequencing with number reference only. Also no preview, but hey - I am all in. I gave it a go. Viewing the photographs through time, was an amazing experience regardless of outcome. Thank you Magnum!

Meagan Young

As a side note, if you sign up for an account on MagnumPhotos.com you will be able to use the 'lightbox' function, inside of which you can manage the image sequence visually.

Debra Frieden

Thank you for the information!

david b

this will be fun..

not certain i agree with oscar there..

:ø)

bobblack

cool....got a shit load of stuff to do in the next 3 days....BUT, will jump in....

raicu monica

A very useful exercise, a wonderful way to see amazing photos. Thank you!

Stephen Uhraney

Thanks for letting us into the archives. What an experience!!!

Matt Dunn

Best of luck to everyone.

Dspousa

Here I go!

(only have 4 hours :()

Brendan Smith

Link to form reads form cannot be viewed by public. ? 403pm NY time. 10 April.

oyunlar

thanks very good

nigel amies

The Magnum blog used to be interesting, but this kind of game show stuff is just dumbing down. Which may unfortunately be indicative of the whole photo world in general.