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Magnum Photos is one of four new titles being published this Spring in Thames & Hudsonâs acclaimed âPhotofileâ series. Each book brings together the best work of the worldâs greatest photographers (or in this case, its greatest photographic agency) in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. Hailed by The Times as âfinely producedâ, the books are printed to the highest standards. Each one contains some sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.
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Fred Ritchin picture editor of The New York Times Magazine from 1978 to 1982 and executive editor of Camera Arts magazine from 1982 to 1983, and founding director of the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Program at the International Center of Photography. He is now associate professor of photography and communications at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a new media consultant to news and photo organizations.
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For those with a genuine interest in photography, 'Magnum Photos' is one of Thames & Hudson's acclaimed Photofile series. This book brings together in an attractive format and easily affordable price the best work of the world's greatest photographic agency - Magnum.
The Agency became an institution, its photographers legends and their photos iconic. Seventy two photos finely produced with accompanying text from its 60 years history, printed to a high standard, full-page duo-tone or colour complete with critical introduction, chronology and full bibliography.
The Agency was founded in 1947, after a famous lunch in MoMA's penthouse restaurant by 4 photographers; Cartier-Bresson, Capa, Seymour and Vandivert. Its raison d'etre was about the status of photographers,the raising of standards of reportage photography, gaining a degree of control and financial independence in their work. The founders divided the world between them in terms of photographic coverage; Cartier-Bresson chose the Far East, Seymour Europe and the Middle East; Capa had a roving brief and Rodger went off to Africa.
Cartier-Bresson's approach defined the aesthetic of post-war journalism - the roving reporter with the Leica camera capturing those decisive moments of humanity.
Magnum defined the ethic of the calling and laid out its scope and its ambition. Then, it had a leading role in the photojournalism of the 1950s and the 1960s when photography was deemed to have a primary role in reporting the world and the photographer was a reliable witness. Today the debates are about photojournalism and art, photographers and artists using photographs, objectivity and subjectivity.
However if Magnum had not been there to witness history much in this world would have gone unrecorded.
The Agency became an institution, its photographers legends and their photos iconic. Seventy two photos finely produced with accompanying text from its 60 years history, printed to a high standard, full-page duo-tone or colour complete with critical introduction, chronology and full bibliography.
The Agency was founded in 1947, after a famous lunch in MoMA's penthouse restaurant by 4 photographers; Cartier-Bresson, Capa, Seymour and Vandivert. Its raison d'etre was about the status of photographers,the raising of standards of reportage photography, gaining a degree of control and financial independence in their work. The founders divided the world between them in terms of photographic coverage; Cartier-Bresson chose the Far East, Seymour Europe and the Middle East; Capa had a roving brief and Rodger went off to Africa.
Cartier-Bresson's approach defined the aesthetic of post-war journalism - the roving reporter with the Leica camera capturing those decisive moments of humanity.
Magnum defined the ethic of the calling and laid out its scope and its ambition. Then, it had a leading role in the photojournalism of the 1950s and the 1960s when photography was deemed to have a primary role in reporting the world and the photographer was a reliable witness. Today the debates are about photojournalism and art, photographers and artists using photographs, objectivity and subjectivity.
However if Magnum had not been there to witness history much in this world would have gone unrecorded.
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