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Magnum photos to reside at UT
The University of Texas’s Ransom Center will be home for five years to some 200,000 original press photographs taken by the legendary photographers of Magnum Photos, the long-standing international photo agency.
The Magnum archive — which was purchased last year by MSD Capital, the private investment firm for the family of Michael S. Dell — will be housed at the Ransom Center for five years for exhibition and study. It is the first time the Magnum archive will be available to the public.
The collection contains photographs dating from the 1930s and include images of major world events, celebrities and starling candid images by photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Leonard Freed and Bruce Davidson among many others.
Magnum, founded in 1947, is owned and managed cooperatively by its member photographers. Magnum continues to provide photographs to the media, publishers and advertising agencies.
The New York Times reported that the Ransom Center had insured the collection for more than $100 million.
As part of its agreement with Magnum and MSD Capital, the Ransom Center has agreed to catalog and preserve the entire photo archive. The Ransom Center will also make digital scans of every image.
The Magnum archive joins other important photography collections at UT including the Gernsheim Collection which includes the world first photograph made by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826.
Photo: Bob Adelman. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his “I Have A Dream” speech, 1963. Copyright: Bob Adelman/Magnum Photos
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By LSM
February 2, 2010 8:51 PM | Link to this
Wow !! Magnum Photos … Will there also be shots of Higgins and the Ferrari ?
By Nirav V. Patel
February 2, 2010 3:18 PM | Link to this
Can’t wait to see them and that Joseph Nicephore Niepce pic.