Henri Cartier-Bresson on the roof of Magnum’s New York office
Dennis Stock / Magnum
untitled on Flickr.
Thelonious Monk and his Town Hall Band, February 1959.
W. Eugene Smith / Magnum
Finally took it out of the freezer, scared now.
Cannes, 1964.
David Hurn / Magnum
December 1937, writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway takes breakfast in his hotel in Valencia, which he used as a base during the Spanish Civil War.
Robert Capa
Alfred Eisenstadt -
“In Times Square on V.J. Day I saw a sailor running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight. Whether she was a grandmother, stout, thin, old, didn’t make a difference. I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder but none of the pictures that were possible pleased me. Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse. If she had been dressed in a dark dress I would never have taken the picture. If the sailor had worn a white uniform, the same. I took exactly four pictures. It was done within a few seconds. Only one is right, on account of the balance. In the others the emphasis is wrong — the sailor on the left side is either too small or too tall. People tell me that when I am in heaven they will remember this picture.”
English poet Ted Hughes, 1971.
Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum
Poet and playwright W.H. Auden in Italy, 1953.
Herbert List / Magnum
