Archival

Magnum Photos Launch New Website

Magnum Photos today announces the official launch of its new website for independent storytelling. Out of its beta pilot, the platform brings the history agency’s photography community to an online, global audience, through an editorial programme of new and archival stories.

10 October 2016

John Latham's ERTH, from 1971

First shown as part of Inn7o – Art and Economics at The Hayward Gallery in 1971, John Latham’s Erth utilised recently available images of our planet from space, pages from Encyclopaedia Britannica, recounting the age of the universe, positioning human existence in relation to what Latham called ‘the whole event’.

2 September 2016

Dynasty Marubi – A hundred years of Albanian studio photography

A selection of photos from the archive of the Albanian photo studio Marubi, from 1856 to 1959, showcasing three generations of photographers made studio portraits of a wide variety of people, ranging from the urban bourgeoisie, shepherds, the Ottoman emperor and King Zog, to criminals and famous actors and painters, are about to go on show at Foam, Amsterdam.

19 August 2016