Henri Cartier-Bresson on the roof of Magnum’s New York office

Dennis Stock / Magnum

Aldwych Underground Station, London, October 8, 1940.

Associated Press

USAAF B-25 Mitchell bombers attacking Japanese destroyers in the South Pacific,
June 1944

Thelonious Monk and his Town Hall Band, February 1959.

W. Eugene Smith / Magnum

Jim Henson c.1971

Ted Neuhoff

Ansel Adams, 1936.

Erich Hartmann / Magnum

Cannes, 1964. 

David Hurn / Magnum

Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming “Mad Jack” Churchill, famous for ambushing a German patrol at Dunkirk using only a longbow, can be seen on the right of this later photograph leading a beach landing armed with a broadsword.