Digitizing the Color Archive
In its ongoing mission to uncover and make public its vast archives, Magnum Paris has begun digitizing its thousands of color slides, with the help of the European Commission and a consortium of partners.
Spéos engagement in preservation of photographic heritage: The Nicéphore Niépce House Photo Museum
During their visit to Paris in September 2022, The Cycle partners were invited to visit the premises of Spéos, with founder and director Pierre-Yves Mahé.
Visiting Magnum Photos’ Archives
During their visit to Paris in September 2022, The Cycle partners were invited to visit Magnum Photos’ archives at the agency’s office in Paris.
Visiting The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation Collection
Aude Raimbault, Collections Manager at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris, held a tour of the building and its collection. The students were presented to the archives as well as the Foundation’s summer 2022 show, L’Expérience du Paysage, by Henri […]
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Visiting Kandinsky Library’s Archives
In September 2022, the participants of the programme had the opportunity to visit the archives of The Kandinsky Library from the Pompidou Center in Paris with Mica Gherghescu.
Visits to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb
The trainees had a private visit to two photographers’ archives managed by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb: the Tošo Dabac Archive and the Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter Archive…
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Behind the Scenes of a Photographic Laboratory
Fred Jourda, Master Printer at Picto, a prominent Paris-based photo lab, and Clarisse Bourgeois, Digital Manager & Coordination at Magnum Photos, introduced the techniques behind color slide production and the specifics of their printing. Drawing on the same archives that […]
Visiting UNESCO’s photographic collection
During the training residency in 2021, students were invited to visit UNESCO with lead archivist Eng Sengsavang. UNESCO Archives, established in 1947, is responsible for the care and management of the organization’s records in all formats since 1946, and the archives […]
ARTISTS’ LEGACIES Preservation, Study, Dissemination, Institutionalisation
Keeping an artist’s legacy alive is a difficult task. An interesting example to study is Magnum Photos, the photographic cooperative which for decades has promoted the work of late photographers Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Werner Bischof, Inge Morath or W. Eugene…
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Bringing down the Archive Fever
Photography archives are more than just collecting, writing about, and curating. Recent discussions over the world confirm that archives are responsible for major changes in many discourses – institutional, educational, historical. They provide necessary impulses for networking and raise awareness about the urgency to protect valuable documentation…
