Match.Com Exhibits Historic Photos Of Love From Magnum Archives On 1,300-Square-Foot Digital Billboard Near Times Square to Celebrate Valentine's Day
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Award-Winning Photographer Alex Majoli Will Add To Exhibit By Capturing
Real-Time Images Of Couples That Day On The Streets Of New York
*** VALENTINE'S DAY INTERVIEW & PHOTO OPPORTUNITY ***
WHAT: Match.com, the world's largest online relationship site, and Magnum
Photos, the famed collective of photojournalists, present a dynamic
photo exhibit of love and romance displayed on the
1,300-square-foot digital billboard over New York's Port Authority
terminal.
The larger-than-life, outdoor exhibit features dozens of romantic
images in rotation by legendary photographers, including Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt and Eve Arnold, among others. The
rarely seen iconic photographs reveal the power of love - its joys,
its complexities, its laughter and tears - among people young and
old from around the world, including recognizable subjects such as
Ingrid Bergman, Brigitte Bardot, Ava Gardner and Marilyn Monroe.
To help bring the exhibit to life on the street, noted Italian
photographer Alex Majoli, the 2004 National Press Photographers
Association OPC Photojournalist of the Year and a frequent
contributor to Vanity Fair, Newsweek and The New York Times, will
take photographs of couples passing by the exhibit. These couples
will then be immortalized, as their photographs become part of the
exhibit in real time. Approximately 1.5 million pedestrians are
expected to pass by the Port Authority terminal building on
Valentine's Day.
After Valentine's Day, the exhibit may be viewed online at
www.Match.com.
WHEN: Monday, February 14, 2005 (Valentine's Day)
NOON to 8:00 PM EST - Alex Majoli photographs couples for the
exhibit
(NOTE: The digital billboard photo exhibit displays from Sunday,
February 13 at 10 PM EST to Tuesday, February 15 at 10 AM EST.)
WHERE: SmartSign Media Digital Billboard
New York Port Authority Building
Corner of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue
New York City
INTERVIEWS: Available for interviews throughout the day:
-- Magnum Photographer Alex Majoli, the 2004 National Press
Photographers Association OPC Photojournalist of the Year
-- Match.com relationship experts
CONTACT: Liz Entwistle, Match.com Kirby Prawdzik, Mullen PR
Office: 214.576.9321 Office: 212.885.3803
Cell: 918.269.8480 Cell: 973.943.5371
Email : liz.entwistle@match.com Email: kirby.prawdzik@mullen.com
PRNewswire -- Feb. 11
SOURCE: Match.com
Web site: http://www.match.com/