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Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices in Paris, New York City, London and Tokyo. It was founded in 1947 in Paris by photographers Robert Capa , David "Chim" Seymour , Maria Eisner , Henri Cartier-Bresson , George Rodger , William Vandivert , and Rita Vandivert.
Steve McCurry (born April 23, 1950) is an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist.His photo Afghan Girl, of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of National Geographic several times.
In 1947, Rodger became a founding member of Magnum Photos.Over the next thirty years, he worked as a freelance photographer, taking on many expeditions and assignments to photograph the people, landscape and nature of African nations.
Susan Meiselas (born June 21, 1948) is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. . Currently she is the President of the Magnum F
Magnum Photos was founded in 1947 as a cooperative, owned and controlled by its members, who have included many of the most prominent photojournalists of their times.
Ingeborg Hermine "Inge" Morath (Austrian German: [ˈɪŋɛbɔrɡ ˈmoːraːt] ⓘ; 27 May 1923 – 30 January 2002) was an Austrian photographer. [2] In 1953, she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with the agency in 1955.
Vandivert and his wife left Magnum Photos in 1948. [12] He continued his career as a freelance photographer, publishing numerous reports in Fortune magazine [13] and then devoted himself with his wife to documentary photography on nature and animals. They published several books together between 1960 and 1982.
He resigned from the agency in 2004 and joined Magnum Photos in 2005. He has served as a contract photographer for Newsweek and National Geographic magazines and is currently the first "Photographer in Residence" at New York Magazine , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 2 ] working with editors Adam Moss and Jody Quon.