The F Stops Here

Worker Viktor Kalmykov arrives at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Combine construction site, 1930. Magnitogorsk (Magnet mountain city) is a mining and industrial city by the Ural River in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, with one of the largest iron and steel works in the country. credit: Max Alpert ©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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NEW YORK, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Magnum Photos, Inc., MSD Capital, L.P. and the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin today jointly announced a landmark partnership under which the Magnum Archive Collection, which contains nearly 200,000 original press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, will be preserved, catalogued and made accessible by the Ransom Center.  The Collection will reside at the Ransom Center pursuant to an agreement with its new owner, an affiliate of MSD Capital, which recently acquired the prints from Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos, the venerable agency founded, owned, and managed cooperatively by its member photographers, has been a standard of photographic excellence and innovation over the past 60-plus years.  The vintage prints in the Collection have been amassed since the 1930s and include images of major world events, celebrities, family life, poverty, religion and social affairs by Magnum photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Leonard Freed, Bruce Davidson, Rene Burri, Eve Arnold, Dennis Stock and more than 80 others.

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January, 20, 2010. With Image Source vario images represents a new promising partner agency with its headquarter in London. The renowned photo agency belongs to the leading independent producers of creative and commercial Royalty Free-photography. The remarkable image pool contains more than 145.000 images, so that almost every topic in the field of high-quality people and lifestyle photography can be visualized.

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Russian Collection Highlights – MUSIC

Lebrecht Music & Arts now offers over 10,000 fine art images from Russian Museums.

The classical music paintings are quite unique:  they include portraits of the great Russian composers  never published in the UK before:  Ippolitov-Ivanov , Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Cui, Dargomyzhsky, Medtner, Khachaturian .  Fabulous stage sets for operas such as Stravinsky’s ‘Mavra’, Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Sadko’, Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ , Gounod’s ‘Faust’.  Plus drawings and paintings of ballet dancers including work by Edgar Degas.  Please click on the picture below to see a selection of these beautiful artworks:

NEW YORK, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ — ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, today announced that several owners of premier collections and libraries of images, including the Missouri History Museum and “Visions of America: Photographing Democracy” author and photographer Joseph Sohm are opening their content for business using ImageSpan’s new LicenseStream Business Edition. The announcement was made at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo, the large photography industry trade show at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York.

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ANNIVERSARY PICS from LEBRECHT: SAMUEL JOHNSON, 300th birth anniversary of the English essayist and author on 18 September 2009

To mark the birth anniversary of Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), Lebrecht has added a great selection of unique colourised portraits, manuscripts and illustrations. To view a lightbox of images, please click on the picture below:

To order high res files, please email pictures@lebrecht.co.uk or call 020 7625 5341. Alternatively, please download directly from www.lebrecht.co.uk using your log-in and password.

Oscar Wilde’s creepy and brilliant The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only published novel, is about to be screened in a new movie adaptation (9 September) by director Oliver Parker (Othello, The Importance of Being Earnest, and St. Trinian’s).

Gothic horror, a Faustian pact, an attempt to be forever young with no consequences….

Click here for Oscar Wilde and Dorian Gray

1219007 – Dorian Gray is played by Ben Barnes in the film ©Momentum Pictures / TopFoto
rv1093-24 – Oscar Wilde. Ink and watercolour on vellum. ©Roger-Viollet / TopFoto

Glass Negative of the Week
Click here for the TopFoto TimeSearch by Bamber Gascoigne
Next month in history

Sir Arnold Wesker, the renowned British playwright, has placed a number of
his personal photos with Author Pictures at Lebrecht.  This complements the
drafts of his famous plays such as ‘Roots’ and ‘I’m Talking about Jerusalem’
that he previously gave permission to Lebrecht Authors to include on their
website at www.lebrecht.co.uk

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