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The book, which overflows with photographs and includes only the briefest amount of text, is arranged thematically to effectively highlight the wide scope of images even within a narrow field. In "Middle East," Larry Towell captured boys playing in Gaza while Micha Bar-Am trained his camera on a Jewish man, wrapped in a prayer shawl fleeing a smoke bomb in Jerusalem. In "India", in the town of Benares, Ferdinando Scianna snapped photos of an excruciatingly thin man carrying his dead daughter and two nicely-dressed young girls frolicking in the water. In "Religion", photographer Abbas trained his lens both on a man re-enacting the Crucifixion in the Philippines and a woman being physically moved by the Holy Spirit in a rural Georgia church. As some of the themes--"Refugees", "Child Victims", "In the Camps", "War in Africa"--suggest, many of the images here are powerfully disturbing, while others, particularly those collected under the headings "Trees", "Fishing" and "Architecture" are lyrically beautiful. Still others, like Martin Parr's photographs of tourists on vacation the world over are witty and comic. Taken together, the thousand or so photos here capture the often surprising, always complex nature of humanity and do justice to the agency founders' original intention to "document the world as it really is." --Jordana Moskowitz --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The technical precision is one thing, and these are indeed the best documentary photographers in the world, but it is not the resolution or the technical quality of the images, it is the messages they convey, the pieces of history frozen in time, the eerie precision with which some of the most extraordinary events have been captured. I can not describe it better, but only urge you to take part of this stunning collection of work.
I saw the exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London when the book was first released. It captures only the 1990-ies but you will be amazed when you see all these pictures to try to grasp the magnitude of what has happened in that time. All the cruelty that goes on in the world, all the poor and hungry people and all the fightings and wars. These photographers risk their lives to document all of this and try to convey a message through to all of us who can't or won't be there - helping us to understand this complex world.
Buy this book to get a better understanding of the world and read it as a document over what is going on.
I have had a life-long interest in photography and think the branch of 'photo-journalism' is the pinnacle of the craft, as it so often requires creativity under pressure or very restrictive time-constraints.
I was introduced to the product of people with these skills in the aged British publication 'Picture Post' from watching TV documentaries, and was especially interested in the photos of Bill Brandt (even without realising, I'm sure most people will have seen at least one photo taken by him !).
However, the group of photographers under the 'Magnum' umbrella typify the genre, as they cover the whole spectrum of events and the area which must be the most demanding, that of military conflicts.
I, like many people, was introduced to the Magnum group specifically via a dedicated photo exhibition - seeing that compelled me to have a permanent 'copy' of what I had seen.
This book is a fantastic collection of all subjects and styles by Magnum photographers, to celebrate not only the 50th anniversary of the organisation but the turn of the century.
I own the hardback edition (which now appears to be OOP and sells S/H for some £100 !) but assume the paperback version has the same content as the page count is the same.
After some opening photos there is a 13-page introductory piece of text and outline index, followed by the photo sections grouped by photographer/genre (each with an individual annotation). The back of the book has 'CVs' for each photographer and an endnote.
The collection is of black+white and colour photos and there is a minimum of accompanying text. The page backgrounds are plain white or black, so presenting a very 'clean' format much as it would be in an exhibition.
The quality of the photo reproduction is excellent and only a few span the central 'crease' of the book.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough and hope it not only fills others with the emotions it does to me, but also attracts them to get other books by the Magnum group.
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