Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History - Brossura

Miller, Russell

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0712665862 ISBN 13: 9780712665865

Casa editrice: Vintage Publishing, 1999

Riassunto

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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A biography of Magnum in the words of its photographers. The perspective on half a century of world history by a small group of photographers who established the co-operative photographic agency which became the most famous in the world. Includes anecdotal stories of the photographers and their adventures.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vintage Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0712665862
• ISBN 13: 9780712665865
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile