Magnum stories
By: edited by Chris Boot.
Contributors: Boot, Chris.; Magnum Photos, inc.
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Magnum Photos, inc. -- History; Photojournalism; Documentary photography
Description: Through the work of key Magnum photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eugene Richards, Martin Parr, Inge Morath and Leonard Freed, this book covers a wide range of subjects including the Vietnam War, student protests in Tiananmen Square, Fidel Castro overthrows Cuban dictator in 1959, Picasso, Malcolm X, the French theatre group Thet́re du Soleil, the US invasion of Grenada in the early 1980s, the New York police, Apartheid and Buddhism. The photographic genres covered include war photography, documentary, photojournalism, social realism, portraits of people and places, fashion and news. There are 61 Magnum photographers featured in the book. Each photographer is represented across 8 pages by a photo story of their choice, which is fully illustrated, and a text which is written in the photographer's own voice based on new interviews with the author. As well as featuring the work of individual photographers, this book functions as a history and interrogation of the form of the photo story-- the key vehicle for photography in the twentieth century, from its earliest developments in the 30s, through the death of ₁photojournalism₂, to contemporary manifestations,
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Abbas; title: Eve Arnold; title: Bruno Barbey; title: Ian Berry; title: Werner Bischof; title: René Burri; title: Cornell Capa; title: Robert Capa; title: Henri Cartier-Bresson; title: Chien-Chi Chang; title: Bruce Davidson; title: Carl De Keyzer; title: Luc Delahaye; title: Raymond Depardon; title: Thomas Dworzak; title: Nikos Economopoulos; title: Elliott Erwitt; title: Martine Franck; title: Stuart Franklin; title: Leonard Freed; title: Paul Fusco; title: Jean Gaumy; title: Bruce Gilden; title: Burt Glinn; title: Philip Jones Griffiths; title: Harry Gruyaert; title: Erich Hartmann; title: David Alan Harvey; title: Thomas Hoepker; title: David Hurn; title: Richard Kalvar; title: Josef Koudelka; title: Hiroji Kubota; title: Guy Le Querrec; title: Erich Lessing; title: Alex Majoli; title: Constantine Manos; title: Peter Marlow; title: Steve McCurry; title: Susan Meiselas; title: Wayne Miller; title: Inge Morath; title: Martin Parr; title: Paolo Pellegrin; title: Gilles Peress; title: Gueorgui Pinkhassov; title: Eli Reed; title: Marc Riboud; title: Eugene Richards; title: George Rodger; title: Lise Sarfati; title: Ferdinando Scianna; title: David Seymour; title: W. Eugene Smith; title: Chris Steele-Perkins; title: Dennis Stock; title: Larry Towell; title: John Vink; title: Alex Webb; title: Donovan Wylie; title: Patrick Zachmann; title: Photographers' biographies; title: Index.