Magnum photos that changed everything.

Leading up to the 68th Annual General Meeting of the Magnum Photos cooperative, its 60 active photographers were asked to select “an image that changed everything.” The response to this open ended prompt created a collection of photographs ranging from the explicitly professional, to the earnestly romantic, to the bluntly profane. “What’s unique about Magnum,” wrote Creative Director Gideon Jacobs in an email interview, “is that it is a large group of photographers functioning under one umbrella, and therefore, sometimes you can construct some kind of singular voice that is composed of many voices.”