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Magnum Contact Sheets

Magnum Contact Sheets

Current price: $75.00
Publication Date: September 16th, 2014
Publisher:
Thames & Hudson
ISBN:
9780500544310
Pages:
524

Description

“Offers unique insight into the working progress of the celebrated agency’s photographers over the past seven decades—their approach to taking and editing their pictures as well as their idiosyncratic relationships with the contact sheet.” —TIME

Available for the first time in a compact edition, this groundbreaking book presents a remarkable selection of contact sheets and ancillary material, revealing for the first time 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.

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.

Praise for Magnum Contact Sheets

Fascinating.
— The Literate Lens

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

Each case presented in Magnum Contact Sheets brings a deeper appreciation of the care and dedication the agency extends to photography. . . . You won’t experience a moment’s hesitation considering this exceptional book for your collection.
— The Picture Professional