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The show is about to begin. And what is a show without the audience? In this selection from Spectacle, Magnum photographers document the ritual of looking and become the spectators themselves.
"I love you to death" is written on a seat in the abandoned Versailles Theater in Beirut, Lebanon, captured by @myriamboulos in 2013.
When he was only 19, @thomashoepker took thousands of photographs in Italy. Rediscovered in his archive, Hoepker's 1956 image of a group of curious boys peering into a cinema was published in his 2023 book, Italia.
Fans reach out to catch a football at a 49ers game in @elireedmagnum’s photograph, taken in San Francisco in the 1980s.
🔗 The Square Print Sale ends on Sunday, April 27. Shop the curation at the link in the @magnumphotos bio.
PHOTOS (left to right):
(1) "I love you to death," on a seat of the abandoned Versailles Theater. Beirut, Lebanon. November, 2013. © @myriamboulos / Magnum Photos
(2) Cinema in Battipaglia, 70 kilometers south of Naples. Italy, 1955. © @thomashoepker / Magnum Photos
(3) Carnival. The crowd gets worked up during the passage of floats on Place Masséna. Nice, France. 1978. © @richardkalvar / Magnum Photos
(4) Grozny, Chechnya, Russia. February, 2002. © @thomasdworzak / Magnum Photos
(5) Cowtown Rodeo. Pilesgrove, New Jersey. USA. 1999. © @paulfuscoestate / Magnum Photos
(6) Ely, Nevada. USA. October, 2024. © @marktpower / Magnum Photos
(7) Fans at a 49ers game. San Francisco, California. USA. 1980s. © @elireedmagnum / Magnum Photos
(8) Photographer’s rally. Karuizawa, Japan, 1958. © Marc Riboud / Magnum Photos
(9) Lantern Festival. Tainan, Taiwan. 2002. © @chien_chi_chang / Magnum Photos
(10) Holi in Vrindavan. India, 2007. © Sohrab Hura (@uglydogbooks) / Magnum Photos