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ID: 500372881
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500372881

 

Record Type: Corporate Body
Magnum Photos (French photographers' cooperative, founded 1947)

Note: Founded in Paris, 1947, Magnum Photos is a cooperative for freelance photographers. The original members were Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, William and Rita Vandivert, Maria Eisner, and David "Chim" Seymour. It is owned and run by its member photographers, who retain all copyright to their work. It has four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, and a network of fifteen sub-agents. It provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising, television, galleries and museums.

Names:
Magnum Photos (preferred,V,English-P,NA)
Magnum (V)

Nationalities:
French (preferred)
International

Roles:
photography studio (preferred)
cooperative
agency
corporate body
photographers

Gender: not applicable

Start and End Places:
Start:  Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
employee was ....  Mounico, Jean  
......................  (American photographer, contemporary) [500491219]
founded by ....  Capa, Robert  
..................  (Hungarian photojournalist, 1913-1954) [500063842]
founded by ....  Cartier-Bresson, Henri  
..................  (French photographer and draftsman, 1908-2004) [500115484]
founded by ....  Eisner Lehfeldt, Maria  
..................  (Italian photo editor and agent, 1909-1991, active in the United States) [500372882]
founded by ....  Rodger, George  
..................  (English photographer, 1908-1995) [500088445]
founded by ....  Vandivert, William  
..................  (American photographer, 1912-1989) [500094794]
member was ....  Abbas  
..................  (Iranian-born photographer, 1944-2018, resident of France) [500451134]
member was ....  Depardon, Raymond  
..................  (French photographer and filmmaker, born 1942) [500384399]
member was ....  Güler, Ara  
..................  (Turkish photographer, 1928-2018) [500115259]
member was ....  Höpker, Thomas  
..................  (German photographer, 1936-2024) [500345684]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Corporate Bodies
 ........  Magnum Photos (I)

Biographies:
(French photographers' cooperative, founded 1947) ..... [VP Preferred]
(International photograpic agency, founded 1947 in Paris) ..... [GRISC]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Magnum ........ [VP]
...............  Woodward, Marc Riboud, Photojournalist, New York Times (2016)
Magnum Photos ........ [GRISC Preferred, VP Preferred]
............................  GRI, Special Collections, information for JPC acquisition (2019-)
............................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 82017683
............................  Magnum Photos [online] (2010)

Subject: ........ [GRISC, VP]
....................  GRI, Special Collections, information for JPC acquisition (2019-)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
.......... Magnum Photos [online] (2010)
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