AUSTIN, Texas – The exhibition “Radical Transformation: Magnum Photos into the Digital Age,” featuring over 450 photographs, books, magazines, films and videos, opens Sept. 10 at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. An opening celebration will be Friday, Sept. 20.

The symposium “Magnum Photos into the Digital Age,” to be held Oct. 25–27, brings together photographers, curators and historians to discuss the ways in which Magnum Photos has continually reinvented itself from the moment of its founding. Twelve Magnum photographers, some of whom rarely give public lectures, will participate in panel discussions focusing on the cooperative’s evolution and future.

Magnum members scheduled to appear include Christopher Anderson, Bruno Barbey, Jim Goldberg, Josef Koudelka, Alex Majoli, Susan Meiselas, Mark Power, Moises Saman, Alec Soth and Chris Steele-Perkins, as well as Magnum CEO Giorgio Psacharopulo. The symposium presents a unique opportunity to hear directly from individual Magnum members as they show and explain how their own work has evolved along with broad changes in the way photographs are created, distributed and viewed, as well as share their opinions and ideas on the future of Magnum.

Opening Oct. 22, will be the special exhibition “Eli Reed: The Lost Boys of Sudan,” a selection of 12 photographs showcasing UT’s own Magnum photographer, Eli Reed, professor in the School of Journalism.

Also, the Harry Ransom Center has partnered with Magnum photographer Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar to bring The LBM Dispatch, their irregularly published, independent newspaper, to Texas. Soth and Zellar will begin an excursion around Texas in November, working in the mode of small town newspaper reporters as they explore the state’s faces, voices, places and stories. They will share the results of these wanderings in a pop-up show on Dec. 6.

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