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Magnum photos now open to researchers
The $100 million Magnum Photos archive originaly purchased by MSD Capital, the $10 billion private investment firm for the family of computer tycoon Michael Dell, is now open to researchers.
Dell and MSD Capital earlier this year loaned the early 200,000 original press photographs of the famed international agency to University of Texas’ Ransom Center. The Center will house the Magnum archive for five years and will pay for the cataloging, preserving the entire photo archive as well make digital scans of every image.
Magnum and its photographers retain the copyright and licensing rights to the images. Dell’s MSD Capital will retain ownership of the photographs.
Read the full story of the agreement.
While they Ransom Center has yet announce plans for an exhibit of the Magnum photos, an inventory is now available online for researchers.
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