Your Daily Awesome

I love photographs the way I love books—I love epics works and miniature odes, facts and fictions, classics and cutting edge stuff. But since I started studying photographs as a teenager, I have never been anything less than awed and moved by the work from Magnum, the agency made up of the “rock stars” of photojournalism. But in addition to what we think of when we consider classic photojournalism, Magnum has always kept it lively with photographers best known for nonfiction-based art photographers, like Alec Soth, Martin Parr, and Jim Goldberg. This year is Magnum’s 60th Birthday, and a terrific website has been created in commemoration: One photo has been selected to represent each year of the agency’s history. The cumulative effect is staggering.

1955, Dennis Stock—James Dean, New York

1962, Bruce Davidson—Reverend Martin Luther King at a press conference.

1977, Bruce Gilden—Coney Island

2005, Thomas Dworzak—Arson after looting in the Garden District, New Orleans