Once Again, Texas Leads the Way

UT to soon host collection of iconic images | Top stories | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "The images are split-second camera clicks of history. American troops storm Omaha Beach. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures heavenward, speaking of his dream. Heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali jams his powerhouse fist to the lens. For most of the last century, Magnum photographers — photojournalists with an artist's eye — have frozen the stuff of life on film.

By 1998, when the New York-based photo cooperative stopped distributing paper prints to its clients, Magnum cameramen and women had generated 180,000 pictures of people and events worldwide. The earliest images dated to the Spanish Civil War, a full decade before the agency's 1947 founding.

Beginning this fall, Magnum's massive photo collection — for decades stored at the co-op's Manhattan headquarters — will be available to students, scholars and the public at the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center in Austin."