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03/06/2026

Today is World Bicycle Day, an annual celebration of our simple, sustainable two-wheeled companions 🚲

Bicycles and photography are historically linked: Nicéphore Niépce, pioneer of photography, built his own velocipede in 1818. Throughout the Magnum archive, the bicycle is a symbol of well-being, freedom and community.

In 1986, Thomas Hoepker photographed artist Keith Haring in front of his art with a Cinelli bike, given to him by Cinelli owner Antonio Colombo. In exchange for the gift, Haring painted on the disc wheels of a Cinelli Pista pursuit bike for Colombo, and they remained friends until Haring's death.

A man shows off his chopper bike on a street in New York City in 1975, captured by Susan Meiselas That same year, Meiselas was riding her own bike through Little Italy when she met the Prince Street girls, who became the protagonists in one of her most acclaimed series.

At 6:30am in Beijing, commuting bikers glide through the early sunlight, as seen by Inge Morath in 1978.

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02/06/2026

Yesterday marked 100 years since the birth of one of the most enduring Hollywood personalities of the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe.

Magnum photographers such as Eve Arnold, Elliott Erwitt, Cornell Capa and Dennis Stock closely photographed Monroe throughout her career, creating some of the most recognizable images of the star, whether charming the camera on set or poised in moments of reflection. For Arnold, her close bond and collaboration with Monroe lasted a decade.

Offering a window into the actor’s inner world, their images reveal glimpses of Monroe’s essence, both vibrant and troubled, tender and melancholic.

🔗 Read more about Magnum's history with Monroe and explore a selection of limited-edition fine prints, contact sheets and posters: https://bit.ly/4xk6rC7

01/06/2026

Magnum Book Club: America in Crisis 🇺🇸

In her final Book Club episode, Magnum Product and Publications Chilli Power takes us through the hard back edition of America in Crisis from the Magnum library.

Published in 1969, the book collects images created by Members of the cooperative during a time of great social tension and upheaval in the United States, exploring the clash between the country's dreams and realities.

29/05/2026

For decades, Czech photographer Josef Koudelka has defied convention: a restless traveler, his life behind the lens has been a search for what he calls “the maximum.”

In 1968, Koudelka documented the chaos that ensued on the streets of Prague during the Soviet invasion, photographing his watch as the tanks rolled through the capital. His negatives were smuggled out of the country to Magnum's office in New York and published under a pseudonym to avoid political persecution.

Leaving Czechoslovakia in 1970, he continued a lifelong documentation project: “to see all the places where gypsies gather,” he wrote. Photographing gypsy populations, minority groups, and others living in forms of exile, Koudelka became an exile himself — always moving, pursuing only his desire to photograph.

This weekend, Koudelka will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to photography at Brussels Street Photography Festival.

28/05/2026

Discover Ara Güler’s photographic vision of Istanbul from the 1950s to the 1980s 🇹🇷

This June 4, join Les Éditions du Pacifique and Ara Güler Müzesi in Paris for the launch of the new edition of Güler’s book, Istanbul.

Originally published in 2009 featuring a text by Orhan Pamuk, this revised edition also presents newly restored scans from Güler’s original negatives, and archival research conducted by the Ara Güler Archives and Research Center. Born in Istanbul in 1928, Güler approached photography as a visual historian, capturing the pulse of local life in the Turkish city throughout the mid-late 20th century.

In conversation at the Magnum Gallery and Bookshop, the Ara Güler Museum and Les Editions du Pacifique will discuss the new edition, Güler’s legacy, and the ongoing efforts to preserve and promote his work.

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27/05/2026

Bruce Gilden creates a contemporary interpretation of two paintings by Italian Renaissance master Raphael 🎨 https://bit.ly/49nIQWF

Commissioned by Fondazione Brescia Musei, Grace/Grazia is Gilden's modern vision of “grace,” portraying two figures on Brighton Beach, New York, and based on Raphael's paintings The Angel (1501) and Christ the Redeemer (1505-1506).

On view until July 12, 2026 at the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia, Italy, Grace / Grazia replaces Raphael’s works, which are currently on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

"Gilden’s response takes the form of a contemporary act of 'focusing' that moves beyond iconographic citation to transform the sacred into pure human presence," says Magnum Global Cultural Director, Andrea Holzherr.

Photos © Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos

Painting images courtesy of the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo Collection

26/05/2026

100 years ago today was the birth of trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Miles Davis 🎺

Across Davis's many eras, from Kind of Blue – the highest selling jazz album of all time – to his avant-garde Bi***es Brew, Dennis Stock and Guy Le Querrec photographed this influential figure in modern music.

On the cover of his 1958 record, Milestones, a 32-year-old Davis perceptively gazes into Stock’s lens. Stock also captured Davis in deep concentration at Columbia Records Studio during the making of the album.

Le Querrec, who followed the trumpeter's career from 1964 until just months before his death, photographed Davis's quintet in 1969 at Salle Pleyel during the Paris Jazz Festival. “I was in just the right place when [Davis] stopped for an instant in a beam of light that was emanating from the floor,” he said. “It accentuated his strange, enigmatic, fascinating beauty and emphasized the depth of his gaze – the same qualities found in his music.”

22/05/2026

The Magic City ✨

China's largest city, Shanghai, is known for its futuristic skyline, culinary scene and famous waterfront promenade, the Bund. We explore depictions of the city through the decades, as seen in the Magnum archive.

Elliott Erwitt captures citizens engaging in the popular morning ritual of Tai Chi, as a lone figure walks the street in the opposite direction.

From 1973 to 2018, Bruno Barbey took numerous trips to China, photographing the nation’s transformation in vivid color. An image of silhouetted figures observing a woman in Yuyuan Garden forms part of his 45-year oeuvre.

A photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson depicts a moody street scene during a typhoon, as Shanghai residents seek refuge from the harsh conditions in July 1949.

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21/05/2026

Following his residency at the Centre Pompidou from September 2024 to February 2025, when he publicly organized his entire archive, Antoine d'Agata now releases a three-volume collector's edition, Méthode.

Featuring the books Axiomes, Dispositifs, and Équations, the volume uncompromisingly addresses political violence, war, poverty, and displacement. D'Agata fuses his own exposure of contemporary violence with a range of historical photographs and illustrations, challenging a fixed temporality.

Evoking our responsibility in the face of catastrophe, Méthode weaves a dialogue between a will to make visible that which is often silenced, and the weight of collective memory.

D'Agata will launch the project in person on May 28 at the Magnum Gallery in Paris, in conversation with Marie Sumalla, Photo Editor at Le Monde.

🔗 Read the article and reserve your space: https://bit.ly/4doA5hp

18/05/2026

When working on her project On the Sixth Day in the late 1990s, Alessandra Sanguinetti met two cousins in Argentina who inspired her work “The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams.”

Observing the girls’ world between reality and fantasy on their grandmother’s farm, Sanguinetti recorded their playful summers surrounded by animals, creating a story of girlhood, the passage of time, and the photographer’s own evolution. In centering their youthful imagination, she also evokes inner lives and relationships that are often overlooked.

“Unfortunately today, when work focuses on women, we always describe it as feminist, because we don’t see it as just something normal,” she said during her 2024 Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition. The project developed into a long-term arc, capturing the girls’ transition into womanhood in her subsequent monograph, “The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer” (2022).

These images are available as fine prints. For inquiries, please contact [email protected]

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