Media Advisory: 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 http://www.match.com/ . For more information about Magnum Photos or to view previous exhibits, visit http://www.magnuminmotion.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
SOURCE: Match.com
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