Larry Towell/Magnum Photos-NYTimes.com

I’ve been developing a growing interest in documentary photography and photojournalism over the last several months and have been reading and studying Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of the Magnum Photo cooperative. I just saw this article in the New York times today about their entire collection of prints being sold and moving to the University of Texas.

…One of the most important photography archives of the 20th century, consisting of more than 180,000 images known as press prints, the kind of prints once made by the collective to circulate to magazines and newspapers moves to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The entire collection of the Magnum photo cooperative founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, David Seymour and William Vandivert was sold to MSD (of Dell computer fame)…

“It catches so many of the world’s great photojournalists in one fell swoop,” Mr. Staley said. “These were the best of the best in their field. We want to make it a research collection. We want to bring scholars in to work in it, time and time again.”

Read the entire New York Times article here: Magnum’s Photo Archives Make Move to University of Texas – NYTimes.com