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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.