Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices in Paris, New York City and London. It was founded in 1947 in Paris by photographers Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour, Maria Eisner, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, William Vandivert, and Rita Vandivert. Its photographers retain all copyrights to their own work.

In 2010, MSD Capital acquired a collection of nearly 200,000 original press prints of images taken by Magnum photographers, which in 2013 it donated to the Harry Ransom Center.

Founding of agency

Magnum was founded in Paris in 1947 by Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and William Vandivert (all photographers), Rita Vandivert and Maria Eisner, based on an idea of Capa's. (Seymour, Cartier-Bresson and Rodger were all absent from the meeting at which it was founded.[1] In response to a letter telling him that he was a member, Rodger wrote that Magnum seemed a good idea but, "It all sounded too halcyon to be true," when Capa had told him of it and, "I rather dismissed the whole thing from my mind".[2]

Publications

America in Crisis. New York, NY: Ridge Press; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. ISBN 9780030810206. Text by Mitchel Levitas, edited by Charles Harbutt and Lee Jones, photographs by Eve Arnold, Cornell Capa, Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Burt Glinn, Philip Jones Griffiths, Charles Harbutt, Danny Lyon, Constantine Manos, Donald McCullin, Dennis Stock, Mary Ellen Mark and possibly others.

In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers. New York; London: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1989. ISBN 0-393-02767-8. By William Manchester. With essays by Manchester ("Images: a Wide Angle"), Jean Lacouture ("The Founders") and Fred Ritchin ("What is Magnum?"), and "Biographical Notes and Selected Bibliographies" and "Bibliography and Chronology of Magnum" by Stuart Alexander.

Magnum Landscape. London: Phaidon, 1996. With a foreword by Ian Jeffrey and texts by Henri Peretz, "The Phenomenon of Landscape" and "Chronology of Landscape Photography".

Hardback, 1996.

Paperback, 2005. ISBN 0-7148-4522-1.

magnum°. London: Phaidon, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7148-4356-8. Text by Michael Ignatieff, design by Julia Hasting.

Magnum Stories by Chris Boot. London: Phaidon, 2004. ISBN 0-7148-4245-1.

Our World in Focus. London: Trolley Books, 2004. ISBN 1-904563-22-8.

Magnum Magnum. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Edited by Brigitte Lardinois.[124]

Compact flexibound edition. London: Thames & Hudson, 2009, 2010. ISBN 978-0-500-28830-6.

Pop Sixties by Magnum Photos. New York, NY: Abrams, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8109-9526-0.

Reading Magnum: A Visual Archive of the Modern World, edited by Steven Hoelscher. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-292-74843-9.

Magnum Analog Recovery. Paris: Le Bal, 2017. Edited by Diane Dufour, Pierre Haurquet and Anna Planas. English (ISBN 9782919430000) and French editions.

Magnum Manifesto. London: Thames and Hudson, 2017. ISBN 978-0500544556. English, French and Italian editions.

Euro Visions. Paris: Steidl/Magnum in Partnership with the Centre Pompidou, 2006. ISBN 978-3865212238. English.

Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal. London: Chris Boot in Partnership with the Georgian Ministry of Culture,[125] 2009. ISBN 978-1905712151. English and Georgian editions.

Magnum Cycling. London: Thames & Hudson, 2016. With text by Guy Andrews. ISBN 978-0500544570. English.

Paris: Magnum. Flammarion, 2014. ISBN 978-2080301529. English and French editions.

Women Changing India. University of Chicago Press, in Partnership with BNP Paribas,[126] 2013. ISBN 978-8189884970. English.

Magnum Chronicles 01: a Brief Visual History in the Time of ISIS. Magnum, 2018. Newspaper format. Text in English and Arabic.

Magnum Streetwise: the ultimate collection of street photography from Magnum Photos. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 2019. Edited by Stephen McLaren. Photographs from various Magnum photographers. ISBN 978-0500545072.[127][128]

type	Cooperative
foundation	1947
founder	Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, William Vandivert, Rita Vandivert, Maria Eisner
location	New York City, Paris, London, Tokyo
area served	Worldwide
industry	Photography
products	Photojournalism, stock photography
homepage	www.magnumphotos.com

Founding of agency

Governance

Elections of new members

Accusations of child abuse

Photographic collection

Graduate Photographers Award

Member list

Publications

See also

Further reading

External links

References