still

Are you still glorifying yourselves

hell, purgatory, heaven?

Again we read about there being different gradations of Magnum, but AGAIN without any in-house or kosher Magnum explanation of what these terms mean, and how anyone wanting to join now that these grades exist gets their first foot on the stairway to wherever.

It is as bad as reading about a new camera, or a new washing machine
with instructions missing or in a foreign language

Or a job spec lacking in any relevant information to guide applicants.

So for the photographers who would apply IF they knew how, an explanation is still necessary,

without it such articles are meaningless.

as they were...

Until this system of "nominee", "associate" and "full member" existed if they wanted you they asked you and you were invited to become a member- and you became a member of Magnum, and that was that.

You were not put on probation, you were not put on trial.

This system Magnum needs to both explain, and to justify, since it is utterly undemocratic. Unfortunately none of them appear to read the BJ and if they do, they refuse to explain when they should. Perhaps somebody in the BJ knows, but so far no explanation is forthcoming and this has rattled on for years- most offputting and rude to any one interested.

One of the reasons people are not interested now? Possibly.

Magnum Photos book

For all Magnum Agency fans I point out this book: http://www.ebay.it/itm/Magnum-Photos-60-years-Celebrative-Book-Out-of-commerce-Rare-New-Sealed-/110975226155?pt=Fotografie_Guide_e_Manuali&hash=item19d6a3912b&_uhb=1#ht_500wt_1288