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Magnum Photos Announces Partnership with Michael Dell for Its Archive Collection

NEW YORK, NY.- Magnum Photos, Inc., MSD Capital, L.P. and the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin today jointly announced a landmark partnership under which the Magnum Archive Collection, which contains nearly 200,000 original press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, will be preserved, catalogued and made accessible by the Ransom Center. The Collection will reside at the Ransom Center pursuant to an agreement with its new owner, an affiliate of MSD Capital, which recently acquired the prints from Magnum Photos. Magnum Photos, a cooperative agency founded, run and governed by its member photographers, has been a standard of photographic excellence and innovation over the past 60-plus years. The vintage