ARTstor: Magnum Images

Now available in ARTstor is the Magnum Photos collection. This collection of more than 73,000 high-quality photographs of major world events and personalities.


This collection relates to courses of study across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and beyond. This collection provides access to high-quality photographs from around the world, covering industry, society and people, places of interest, politics, news events, disasters and conflict, from the late 1930s to the present day. From the Spanish Civil War to the Gulf War, from Marilyn Monroe to Paul Newman, from John Updike to Toni Morrison, from Christian Dior to Oscar de la Renta, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the crisis in Chechnya, these images capture wars, celebrities, authors, fashion designers, and defining moments in our shared history.

To view the Magnum Image collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click "Magnum Photos." Or search the keywords: "magnum photos"

To view ARTstor from off campus locations you need to create an ARTstor account at http://www.artstor.org/ from any on campus computer.