Chris Boot 40196 — Magnum Stories

Phaidon, 2004, Hardcover, 510, This book explores the 'photo story' through 61 master classes by some of theorld's greatest photographers, all members of the international photographicgency Magnum. Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Elliott Erwitt and theirolleagues use the photo story as a vehicle to explain their approach toaking and editing photographs. It is about the Magnum photographers, their subjects and their approaches to photography in general and to the particular form of the photo story.;The book will also comprise a history of Magnum practice and photojournalism over a 70-year period. Magnum Stories is a collection of photo stories produced by the photographers of Magnum. Through the work of key Magnum photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eugene Richards, Martin Parr, Inge Morath and Leonard Freed, this book Covers a wide range of subjects including the Vietnam War, student protests on Tiananmen Square, Fidel Castro overthrows Cuban dictator in 1959, Picasso, Malcolm X, the French theatre group Theatre du Soleil, the US invasion of Grenada in the early 1980s, the New York police, Apartheid and Buddhism., Goed