Magnum Photos

After joining Magnum Photos (a photographers’ cooperative that then included Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, and Ernst Haas) in 1949, Bischof continued to photograph on assignment for Life magazine and Paris-Match, among others. His work took him to India (where he movingly captured a famine in…

…David (“Chim”) Seymour to found Magnum Photos, the first cooperative agency of international freelance photographers. Although he covered the fighting in Palestine in 1948, most of Capa’s time was spent guiding newer members of Magnum and selling their work. He served as the director of the Magnum office in Paris…

…cooperative photo agency known as Magnum Photos. The organization offered periodicals global coverage by some of the most talented photojournalists of the time. Under the aegis of Magnum, Cartier-Bresson concentrated more than ever on reportage photography. The following three years found him in India, China, Indonesia, and Egypt. This material…

…City, joined Capa’s recently established Magnum Photos agency, and launched a successful career that encompassed commercial, journalistic, editorial, and personal photography. In 1955 his photo New York City, 1953, an image of his first wife and his six-day-old daughter, was included in the landmark exhibition “The Family of Man” at…

In 1972 he joined Magnum Photos, a cooperative agency formed in 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Freed produced photo-essays for such magazines as Life and Paris Match, and his riveting images were often accompanied by commentaries and bits of recorded dialogue.

… had invited Freund to join Magnum Photos—a cooperative agency for freelance photographers that he had founded that year—but he dismissed her in 1954 because American Sen. Joseph McCarthy identified her as a communist. Before returning to Paris in 1952 she traveled to Mexico, where she photographed artists Frida Kahlo and…

…he was invited to join Magnum Photos, a prestigious international photojournalists’ agency. Soon after that, he created “The Miracle of Greece,” a photo-story that gained him an international reputation.

The Magnum agency first appeared in 1947 when photojournalists Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour formed it to distribute their photographs while protecting their image ownership rights. Initially based in Paris and New York and later adding offices in

…1979 he joined the prestigious Magnum Photos cooperative for photojournalists, and two years later he gained prominence in the United States with a riveting photograph that captured John Hinckley’s attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.

…1947 he founded the influential Magnum Photos cooperative agency, along with Capa, Cartier-Bresson, and others. The group formed in order to have control over their own assignments and to retain copyrights over their own negatives. The next year, on assignment for the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), Seymour…