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Magnum Photos Forms Partnership with Michael Dell for Its Photo Archive Collection

Elliott Erwitt - Jacqueline Kennedy at John F. Kennedy's Funeral, November 25th, 1963, Arlington, Virginia. © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos.

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.

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Crystal Bridges Acquires New Work by Walton Ford

BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has acquired a major new work by Walton Ford, an artist winning international acclaim for his highly detailed, monumental watercolors of exotic birds, reptiles and mammals. In “The Island”, Ford presents a writhing pyramidal mass of Tasmanian wolves (thylacines) grappling with each other and a few doomed lambs. The violent extermination of the thylacines, which were hunted to extinction in the early 20th century, calls into question who is hunter and hunted in this savage tableau. “Thylacines were mysterious terrifying phantoms in the minds of Tasmanian settlers,” Walton Ford said via email. “I wanted to create a delirious image that suggested the thylacine’s doom. The painting could be interpreted as the hallucination of either the man or the beast.” Chris Crosman, chief curator for Crystal Bridges, describes the 8-feet-high by 11 ½-feet-long triptych as a “tour d