Magnum Photos
Artstor is collaborating with Magnum Photos to share approximately 80,000 of the world's most renowned photographs with the educational community. For more than six decades, Magnum's documentary photographers have been chronicling people, events, issues, and personalities, from the Spanish Civil war to Vietnam to the present day. According to Mark Lubell, Managing Director of Magnum's New York office, "The Artstor Digital Library is a wonderful way of providing students and the academic community with access to a selection of Magnum's iconic photographs." Magnum photographers have produced some of the most celebrated and recognizable photographs of the 20th century and contemporary life, documenting an astounding range of subjects, whether industry, society and people, places of interest, politics and news events, or disasters and conflicts. Magnum's roster includes prominent photojournalists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Rene Burri, Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka, Hiroji Kubota, Susan Meiselas, Martin Parr, Alex Webb, and dozens of others. Their photographs have appeared in award-winning publications such as Life,Paris Match, and Picture Post, and their work is included in international museum collections.
Panos Pictures
Panos Pictures is collaborating with Artstor to share 35,000 images of contemporary global affairs in the Digital Library. Panos specializes in documenting critical social issues as well as stories beyond the daily media agenda. From urban development in Turkey, and deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, to detailed photos of extinct and endangered species at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the endurance of cyclists in the Tour de Faso, and Charlie Chaplin impersonators in India, the collection covers thousands of compelling stories and issues, soon to be discoverable via the Artstor Digital Library. With more than 100 contributing photographers based across the globe, the Panos archive is one of the most comprehensive visual records of our contemporary world. Images documenting urban and rural communities, diverse landscapes and the built environment, peace and conflict, tell the story of the ties between globalized and localized life.
Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography
Artstor and Christopher D. Roy are sharing 3,500 images of African art and culture in the Digital Library. The collection includes images of art and ceremonial objects, as well as documentation of their social context, use, and manufacture — whether performances employing masks, or techniques used in producing pottery, iron, leather, and weaving.
Since 1970, Roy has been photographing the rural villages and towns of the Bobo, Bwa, Fulani, Lobi, Mossi, and Nuna peoples in West Africa — primarily in Burkina Faso, but also in Ghana, Nigeria, and Niger. Professor Roy has used his field photography to produce numerous educational resources (films, CDs, and DVDs) to support the teaching of African art history and anthropology at high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States.
