Michael Dell MSD Capital: Magnum sells some of its treasures!
Michael Dell MSD Capital Investments | Michael Dell Magnum agency | Michael Dell Updates – Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computers, has acquired through his investment firm MSD Capital part of the photographic archives of the famous Magnum agency, founded in 1947 by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. 200,000 prints from original press which are the archives of the New York headquarters of Magnum. If you do not know the exact amount of the transaction, the insurance, estimated at 100 million dollars, gives an idea of the amount involved.
After the bankruptcy of Gamma few months ago in Paris, and the discontinuance of the photojournalism agency the public eye, so it is a monument to the history of photography in the twentieth century begins to crumble .
Among the photographers represented in the archive include Henri Cartier-Bresson, René Burri, Elliott Erwitt, Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock. Michael Dell, who started his computer company in 1983 at the University of Texas at Austin, has chosen to entrust the Ransom Center archives at the university, where they will be cataloged and made accessible to researchers and the public. They will add a collection of photographs already outstanding, with particularly what is considered the first photograph in the history of a priceless view over the roofs of sheet asphalt Nicephore Niepce, entitled The Point view Gras and dated 1827.
