Magnum Contact Sheets
Price
$47.95
Format
Paperback
Pages
524
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Publication Date
Reprint edition (October 24, 2017
ISBN-13
978-0500292914
Dimensions
9.5 x 1.6 x 11.6 inches
Weight
6.39 pounds
Description
About the Author Kristen Lubben is the Associate Curator at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her previous books include Susan Meiselas: In History and Amelia Earhart: Image and Icon .
Features & Highlights
- At their best, the pictures add to our understanding of the surface event documented and reveal something profound about the people pushing that history forward. ―
- The Los Angeles Times
- Available for the first time in an accessible paperback edition, this groundbreaking book presents a remarkable selection of contact sheets and ancillary material, revealing how the most celebrated Magnum photographers capture and edit the very best shots. Addressing key questions of photographic practice, the book illuminates the creative methods, strategies, and editing processes behind some of the world’s most iconic images.
- Featured are 139 contact sheets from sixty- nine photographers, as well as zoom-in details, selected photographs, press cards, notebooks, and spreads from contemporary publications including
- Life
- magazine and
- Picture Post
- . Further insight into each contact sheet is provided by texts written by the photographers themselves or by experts chosen by the members’ estates. Many of the acknowledged greats of photography are featured, including Henri Cartier- Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, and Inge Morath, as well as such members of Magnum’s latest generation as Jonas Bendiksen, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Alec Soth. The contact sheets cover over seventy years of history, from Robert Capa’s Normandy landings and the Paris riots of 1968 via Bruno Barbey, to images of Che Geuvara by René Burri, Malcolm X by Eve Arnold, and portraits of classic New Yorkers by Bruce Gilden.
- 446 illustrations
