Under Fire, Magnum Photos Is Combing Through Its Archive to Remove 'Sensitive' Material. Now It Must Decide What to Do With It
When Magnum Photos’s Fabled Archive Went Online, It Opened Pandora’s Box. What Happens When Sensitive Images Fall Into the Wrong Hands? The famous photo agency has had to confront big questions about the role of its storied archive in the photo industry today. March 10, 2021 October 2019, Hamburg: A visitor stands in an exhibition of the work of the Italian Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin at the Haus der Photographie, October 2019. Photo: Markus Scholz/dpa via Getty Images. In August of last year, the international photographic cooperative Magnum Photos came under fire for licensing ...
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