80,000 Historical Images Coming to ARTstor

Magnum Photos will soon add 80,000 high-quality photographs to the ARTstor eresource available through the USC Libraries. The  images will cover a range of subjects over the span of more than 100 years of photographic history. The selection includes documentary photographs, portraits, and numerous other genres.

Magnum Photos is a cooperative of 80 photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka, Rene Burri, Hiroji Kubota, Susan Meiselas, Martin Parr, and Alex Webb. Here are two of the images that you'll be able to view and download using ArtStor:

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W. Eugene Smith's 1945 photograph from Okinawa, titled "Calling for Help"

 

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Henri Cartier-Bresson's 1945 photograph of the denunciation of a Gestapo informer in Dessau.