Comments on: Tour de France Magnum Photo Essay

Tour de France Magnum Photo Essay

OmieWise — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:55:46 -0800

Magnum photos of previous Tours de France. A Flash (Friday) evocative photo essay of Tours gone by. With soothing accordian music and light narration to help you forget your doping woes.

By: Il Furioso

Il Furioso — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:07:24 -0800

Never seen Elliot Erwitt's photo (#35) in this sequence. Damn fine photo. Is that Condy and W in the background? And Rumsfeld in the foreground, leaping: "Don't look there! Look here!" It's, like, a fabulous Champs de Mars musical.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:07:49 -0800

Good stuff. I'll add this little archive of TdF stories from Owen Mulholland.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:09:32 -0800

Nice shots. And wouldn't the correct French pluralization be "Tours de Frances"? :0) Vendredi heureux!

By: antifuse

antifuse — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:11:51 -0800

squirrel: no, since there's only one France being toured. Just like the english plural... Tour of France->Tours of France :)

By: yonation

yonation — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:48:16 -0800

pretty pictures, but annoying that they don't have the date or more specific locations... would have historically contextualized things tremendously.

By: carter

carter — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:53:29 -0800

Excellent - thanks OmieWise! (The whole InMotion site is worth exploring ...)

By: Il Furioso

Il Furioso — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:02:12 -0800

True, no dates. But it's fun to guess what approximate year the pic was taken by looking at the pic's contrast and other qualites that date it. I'm not sure I'm sold on this slide-show format that Magnum is experimenting with. Have they lost confidence in the concept of the still photograph, or have they lost confidence in our ability to maintain attention for more than 3 seconds? Depressing thought, that. I'd like to see Magnum stand confidently behind the still image. The voice aspect is nice. I'd like to hear, say, Paul Fusco, talk about one particular image, which remains on the screen for a minute or more as he explores the picture and its content/context in depth.

By: carter

carter — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:40:47 -0800

I'm not sure I'm sold on this slide-show format that Magnum is experimenting with. True, I was constantly pressing the pause button.

By: the painkiller

the painkiller — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:49:20 -0800

the cartier-bresson (#32) photo is marvelous. exhaustion, glory, sex, determination.

By: jmgorman

jmgorman — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:23:52 -0800

that was beautiful, thank you.

By: afx237vi

afx237vi — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:38:49 -0800

Yes, this is beautiful. The narrator, Joergen Leth, is also the director of one of the best cycling films of all time: A Sunday in Hell, about the 1976 Paris-Roubaix.