Founded in 1947, the renowned photographers’ collective Magnum Photos is widely known for its image archive. In addition to its extensive collection of photographs spanning from the 1930s to the present day, Magnum also holds a large collection of photobooks created by its members. Each Magnum office maintains its own photobook library—a space that has long served as a site of intellectual exchange and creative nourishment for photographers, staffs, and researchers.

Magnum photographers have played a defining role in shaping the evolution of the photobook, using the medium to push the boundaries of documentary photography and visual storytelling. From the very beginning, Magnum photographers embraced the photobook as a means of controlling how their work was seen and understood. Through experiments combining text and image, incorporating archival material and interviews, they transformed the photobook into a space for artistic expression, critique, and historical reflection. The younger generation of Magnum photographers continues to explore this potential with a digital-era sensibility, demonstrating that photobooks are immersive experiences that go far beyond mere collections of images.

This exhibition traces this trajectory through about 150 photobooks created by Magnum photographers over the past 80 years. By highlighting the examples, it draws attention to the ways in which these works serve as artistic statements, historical documents, and significant milestones in the evolution of the photobook as a genre. Organized around key themes selected by Museum Hanmi, Magnum Photos, and guest curators Martin Parr and Kyungwoo CHUN, Magnum Between Pages invites visitors to reconsider the photobook as a cultural object—one that is meant to be engaged with and enjoyed in multiple ways. Through this exhibition, which focuses on the material experience of photobooks while highlighting the thematic depth where various events and phenomena of reality intersect with the unique perspectives of photographers, visitors will have the opportunity to more vividly recognize the creativity and enduring value of the photobook today.