Magnum Photos - 60th anniversary

Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices located in New York, Paris, London and Tokyo. According to co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson, "Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually."

War photographers Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and George Rodger founded Magnum in 1947, responding to their World War II experiences.[1] Magnum is one of the first photographic cooperatives, owned and administered entirely by members. The staff serve a support role for the photographers who retain all copyrights to their own work (source Wikipedia.org).

Today Magnum's ethic remains to see things differently as in Thomas Hoepker's shot of lunching New Yorkers on 11 September, 2001. The book Magnum Magnum is published by Thames & Hudson on 12 November. All images © Magnum Photos

The photographers of the Magnum in Sardinia (Picture: Gianni Berengo Gardin, Pastori ).
In 1950 Werner Bischof documented in thirteen images for the magazine "Epoca" the hardness and the backward conditions in the Campidano of Cagliari and in the Iglesiente.


Henri Cartier-Bresson Tra il '51 e il '73, compie numerosi viaggi in Italia. Nell'estate del 1962, la rivista internazionale "Vogue" gli commissiona un reportage sulla Sardegna, dove trascorre una ventina di giorni. Immortala la gente in maniera discreta e senza forzature, preferendo alla nascente ed elitaria Costa Smeralda, come del resto era stato per la Penisola, i luoghi della tradizione: Mamoiada, San Leonardo di Siete Fuentes, Orosei, Cala Gonone, Orgosolo, Orani – ospite dell’amico Costantino Nivola –, Desulo, Oliena, Nuoro e Cagliari.