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Photographers Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David 'Chim' Seymour founded Magnum Photos in 1947. Magnum is community built on respect for the vision of the individual photographer, a cooperative with a membership of nearly fifty photographers. All combine elements of adventurer, journalist, humanist and artist; all are committed to the power and the point of the documentary photography; all pursue their own independent vision with determination. Magnum photographers have worked for nearly every major publication in the world over the past half century, with many journalistic scoops to their credit. The photographers are particularly well known for their photo essays from classic reportage by founders Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson to seminal photo essays "Vietnam Inc." by Philip Jones Griffiths in the sixties and Josef Koudelka's "Gypsies" in the seventies. To this day Magnum continues to produce the very best in documentary photography appearing in the world's leading publications. Recent work includes unprecedented coverage of the World Trade Center crisis with 10 photographers witness to the tragedy appearing in major news magazines domestically and internationally. Other notable bodies of work have been Paul Fusco's essays on Chernobyl showing the horrors of the nuclear blast on the people of Belarus, Thomas Dworzak's story on Afghan Refugees, Alex Webb's US-Mexican Border featured in Time Magazine as well as Abbas' view of Christianity at the end of the century which will be in magazines throughout Europe and has already appeared in Italy's Specchio. Offices are located in London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo. Each office handles editorial assignments, research for archival pictures, advertising and annual report work, portfolio and print sales. |