The New York Times Magazine Photographs
Compiled in an impeccably designed and gorgeously reproduced coffee table book, the photographs commissioned by The New York Times Magazine are a revelation - arguably, the most wide-ranging and accomplished photojournalistic body of work of the past many decades. (Kathy RyanNPR Books2011-12-06)Easily one of the most impressive photography books of the year (Rebecca HorneThe Wall Street Journal2011-12-05)Covering three decades, this volume showcases The New York Times Magazine's reliable blend of ambitious photojournalism and inventive illustrative work. (Jack CragerAmerican Photo2011-12-01)Covering three decades, this volume showcases The New York Times Magazine's reliable blend of ambitous photojournalism and inventive illustrative work. (Jack Crager 2011-11-01)Every photograph stops time. This is the most banal, technical fact about the medium and also the source of its uncanny and remarkably durable power. The relentless momentum of mundane existence is stilled by the shutter, and some of the mysteries implicit in everyday life open up. A moment - of high artifice or raw candor, of posed elegance or composed chaos - is captured and then, later, delivered to our contemplative gaze...Thousands of photographs have appeared in the magazine. More than 250 of them - revealing portraits of the famous; documents of atrocity and heroism; sensitive studies of everyday life; unclassifiable works of art - have been collected into a book, "The New York Times Magazine Photographs," edited by the magazine's director of photography, Kathy Ryan... (A.O. ScottThe New York Times Magazine2011-08-23)