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Magnum Photos <http://www.magnumphotos.com> and ARTstor
<http://www.artstor.org> announce an exciting collaboration to bring
the world's most renowned photographs to the educational community.
Beginning this spring, Magnum will launch 80,000 high-quality
photographs within the ARTstor Digital Library to share images of major
events and personalities from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam to the
present day for scholarly purposes. Mark Lubell, Managing Director of
Magnum's New York office, says of the collaboration, "The ARTstor
Digital Library is a wonderful way of providing students and the
academic community with access to a selection of Magnum's iconic
photographs."
Magnum Photos International, Inc., is entirely owned by its 80 prominent
photographer-members. Magnum's roster of photographers includes Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Elliott Erwitt, Josef
Koudelka, Rene Burri, Hiroji Kubota, Susan Meiselas, Martin Parr, Alex
Webb and dozens of others. With powerful individual vision, these
photographers have chronicled an astounding range of subjects -
industry, society and people, places of interest, politics and news
events, disasters and conflict - for award-winning publications such as
Life, Paris Match, and Picture Post. "We are thrilled to be working with
what most people recognize to be the most extraordinary group of
documentary photographers in the world." James Shulman, Executive
Director of ARTstor said. "Accessing 80,000 Magnum images via ARTstor
will be a great breakthrough not only for art historians, but for social
scientists, humanists, or really anyone in academia who wants to access
these stunning images in their teaching and research, on topics from
Afghanistan to soccer, from Soweto to glaciers, from Dr. King to Beacon
Hill."
The world's most prestigious photographic agency, Magnum Photos was
formed by four photographers: Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George
Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour in 1947, two years after WWII. They
created Magnum to reflect their independent natures as both people and
photographers - an idiosyncratic mix of reporter and artist that
continues to define Magnum, emphasizing not only what is seen but also
the way one sees it. They believed photographers had to have a point of
view in their imagery that transcended any formulaic recording of
contemporary events
Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo,
and a network of sub-agents, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the
press, publishers, advertising, television, galleries and museums across
the world. "Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a
curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is
going on and a desire to transcribe it visually," said Henri
Cartier-Bresson.
The inclusion of the Magnum collection in ARTstor will impact the next
generation of artists, photographers, historians, politicians, writers,
journalists, and others who will teach and study these images through
the ARTstor website library and presentation tools. ARTstor, a nonprofit
organization, is dedicated to furthering the use of digital images in
the arts, architecture, and humanities for non-commercial, educational
purposes.
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Image Credits
Bob Adelman | Civil Rights leaders speaking at United Nations Plaza,
1967 |
(c) Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
Ilkka Uimonen | Iraqis and U.S. Marines pull down a Saddam Statue after
the arrival of the Americans, 2003 | (c) Ilkka Uimonen / Magnum Photos
David Seymour | Dutch actress Audrey Hepburn in the film Funny Face,
1956 |
(c) David Seymour / Magnum Photos
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