- Paperback: 335 pages
- Publisher: Pimlico; New edition edition (4 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0712665862
- ISBN-13: 978-0712665865
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 196,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," said Robert Capa, the legendary photojournalist who, with Henri Cartier-Bresson and other documentary shooters, founded the Magnum press agency in 1947. Capa got close to the action, of course; he died under fire in Indo-China in 1954, seeking the perfect image of war. Other Magnum photographers died in places like Afghanistan, Israel and Chechnya, always at the forefront of battle and strife, always with an eye on capturing history as it unfolded. In this well-written study of their work, British journalist Russell Miller shows how their images have changed the ways in which we respond to war, politics, and crises. --Gregory McNamee
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This book is a biography of Magnum, told largely in the words of its photographers. It offers a unique perspective on half a century of world history from an extraordinary group of men and women who were front line witnesses at virtually every major event in the last fifty years. Wars, famines, natural disasters, social, political and environmental crises - Magnum photographers were there. They have been acute observers of the human condition, photographing the richest people in the world, the poorest, the least known and the most celebrated, from Marilyn Monroe to Che Guevara, JFK to Nelson Mandela, Picasso to Krushchev. This is a multi-layered story. At one level, it tells how a small group of photographrs - among them Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger - came together, established and nurtured a co-operative photographic agency that has survived against all the odds to become the most famous in the world. At a secondary level, it is the richly anecdotal story of the photographers themselves, their adventures around the world and their feelings about, and reactions to, their assignments.
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Story of the most influential group of photo-journalists,
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This review is from: "Magnum": Fifty Years at the Front Line of History - The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency (Paperback)
Miller's book tells a story of Magnum, probably the best-known photo journalist agency ever. He provides an in-depth picture of this fabulous group of photographers, their motivations, principles, differences and temperamental quarrels. Out of any collection of most powerful documentary photographs of the second half of the 20th century, it is more than likely that a large majority will be by Magnum photographers. This book shows us the people behind those photographs: unconventional, often egocentric, but always brilliant photographers. With many of them telling their story in their own words, the book is a great reading for any would-be photo-journalist and for everyone taking a deeper interest in photography. My only objection is that the book could have included more photographs (there are only 13).
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