Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Historic photos from Magnum

Magnum: Photos That Changed the World. Four of them are below. Click HERE for the rest.

(Robert Capa - death of a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War, 1936.)

(Segregation in the pre-1960s US South.)

(New York City, September 11, 2001.)


Thanks for the tip from Shaun Mullen at Kiko's House:
[T]he legendary Magnum Photo agency is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Slate has a terrific slide show of the finest of Magnum's finest, including this historic Stuart Franklin photograph of a man confronting Chinese Army tanks in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989.
--Jeff Weintraub