Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the Magnum Photos collection is now
available in ARTstor. This first launch of more than 73,000 high-quality
photographs of major world events and personalities provides the
academic community with access to a selection of Magnum's iconic images.
The ARTstor and Magnum Photos collaboration will showcase a total of
80,000 images by this world-renowned group of documentary photographers.
This collection relates to courses of study across the arts, humanities,
social sciences, and beyond. The ARTstor community will now be able to
access high-quality photographs from around the world, covering
industry, society and people, places of interest, politics, news events,
disasters and conflict, from the late 1930s to the present day. From the
Spanish Civil War to the Gulf War, from Marilyn Monroe to Paul Newman,
from John Updike to Toni Morrison, from Christian Dior to Oscar de la
Renta, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the crisis in Chechnya, these
images capture wars, celebrities, authors, fashion designers, and
defining moments in our shared history.
Magnum Photos International, Inc., is a cooperative founded just after
World War II and owned today by its 80 prominent photographers,
including 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. Magnum was created from the
belief that photographers must have a point of view in their imagery
that transcends any formulaic recording of contemporary events. "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 Magnum Photos collection brings the total number of images in
ARTstor to more than 930,000. These collections have been contributed by
a variety of outstanding scholars, photographers, artists, museums,
libraries, and photo archives. To learn more about this new collection
go to our homepage and also browse the Magnum Photos collection in
ARTstor: http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml
We hope to see you at the College Art Association conference in Los
Angeles next week.
Best wishes,
Christine
Christine Kuan
Director of Collection Development
ARTstor
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New York, NY 10065
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