Same Old New You
Exercise routines through the decades, inspired by the 'new year, new you' mantra
Magnum Photographers
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David Hurn The Dancing Grannies are a 5 member team in their early 60s to mid 70s. Although they kick and jump better than most 19 year olds they are all grandmothers. “Who says you can’t feel good and be sex (...)
y as a senior citizen”. Sun Lakes, Arizona. 1997. © David Hurn | Magnum Photos
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As a new year begins and gym ads, magazine articles and television features suggest working on a ‘new you’, we present a curation of images of exercise, captured by Magnum photographers throughout the decades, documenting the eternal pursuit for the body beautiful.

















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Fine Collectors’ Prints
Burt Glinn
, Chris Steele-Perkins
, David Alan Harvey
, David Hurn
, Dennis Stock
, Eli Reed
, Inge Morath
, Jean Gaumy
, John Vink
, Leonard Freed
, Micha Bar-Am
, Peter Marlow
, Philip Jones-Griffiths
, Philippe Halsman
, René Burri
, Stuart Franklin
, Thomas Hoepker
- Written by Laura Havlin · Jan 01, 2017