Customer Reviews

Magnum Degrees

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This collection of Magnum photographs is amazing. The pictures are broken into differnet thematic or geographic categories--war, environment, famine, etc. While there is very little text and almost no captions at all, the pictures are enough to speak to the subject. It contains both recent photographs and old ones, becoming something like an encyclopediea of photography.

It is a beautiful edition, worth having and will make an excellent, classy present not only for a photography enthusiast, but for everybody.

There are plenty of photograph anthologies available, but few of this caliber. Not only is the subject range impressive, the quality of the work is astounding. The section dealing with war provides a harrowing and insightful view into events of recent years, creating a sobering perspective of the late 20th century. An amazing book!

Please note that the focus of this book is photojournalism; and that is only covers about a decade of time, around the 1990s.

I can't fault the book for this, and I should have read the independent editorial reviews more carefully, but I thought this was a collection of photographs that spanned Magnum's *entire* history especially as the Amazon review stated "Magnum Degrees is a selection of agency photos that illustrates the range of subject matter and imagery the photographers have captured over the last half century."

That said, I was struck by many of the photographs in the book - in fact many of them, due to their subject matter, are alarming. As a compilation of 500+ pages, however, it was overwhelming. I wonder what a more focused selection of pictures might have achieved.

In this book any page you turn to is an amazing photo. While the book is on photo journalism, the photos are highly artistic. Probably one of the best photography books ever created. Not only are the photos wonderful but the production of the book is perfect...great size, high quality printing, sturdy binding and pages, excellent layout and light on text but the text that is there is well written. This is a must have for any photo library.

Unfortunately, I had no time to find more time to review this incredible book more carefully, but that what I observed is magnificent. Moreover, my wife did browse the book more carefully and she couldn't find the words for all those amazing photographs. This book unites masterwork collection of all the photographers who visually wrote the history of the world in last hundred years. I made my decision to purchase this book upon the reviews buy other customers and was no mistake at all.

However, great book and, once again, Amazon proved to be the world's best company regarding buying on-line. Fast, accurate, reliable, with great products selection.

It took me a year to get all the way through it. Each image is independently powerful, enough so that I had to spend a great deal of time studying each diptic (a year in total). If you can judge this book by it's cover, then judge it by one word on it's cover - MAGNUM. You won't be disappointed.

The quality of the book is excellent. I'm not sure what was the selection process, but in my opinion, the best and most popular images of the magnum photographers are not on this book. Never the less, this book presents an outstanding compilation of pictures full of strength and beauty, displaying the inhuman conditions of humanity from all the corners of the world.

One of the best books of photojournalism that I've ever seen. Highly recommended.

This is one of the very best book of photos that I have seen in my life. I you like photos you would love this book, even if it contains some very crude photos. I think it is a must for anyone enyoying the art of photograf.

these pictures speak a million words: about the beautiful things in life as well as the dark side of life.