In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers (Hardcover)

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Like the traveling exhibition it accompanies, this 55-year retrospective celebrates the founding of Magnum, a photographers' collective, in 1947. Manchester's lively essay is weak in the area of photo history, but, as we might expect, the photographs (by 52 members) are the book's real strength. Well reproduced, they show every aspect of human experience from the Spanish Civil War to the late 1980s: war, asylums, poverty and famine, family life, drugs, religion, crime, government, leisure, high society, and celebrities. Images by lesser-known names hold their own next to those by Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and other legendary photographers. The absence of an index makes it difficult, however, to get back to particular images, which are grouped neither chronologically nor by photographer. An important book for photo history and journalism collections.
- Kathleen Collins, Great Barrington, Mass.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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The year's most important book of photographs. . . . [Magnum] has acted as the conscience of our times—as far as journalistic photography is concerned. (Peter S. Prescott - Newsweek ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 456 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (October 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393027678
• ISBN-13: 978-0393027679
• Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 9.9 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #838,345 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally Increadable, October 16, 1999

By A Customer

The world as seen by the legendary Magnum photographers is really increadable. This book is and will always be a photographic masterpiece. When do we get further editions? Well done Magnum

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent display of photojournalistic imagery., October 13, 1997

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This review is from: In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers (Open Market Edition) (Paperback)

This book is a "must-have" for anyone who has even the most remote interest in photojournalism. Every time you turn the page of this book, you will enter a new era and meet a new person or feel a new experience...and surely you will envy the talent and experience of the photographers who bring it all to print.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A book of Magnum porportions!, June 23, 2001

By	T. Tom (SF Bay Area, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers (Open Market Edition) (Paperback)

If you are into photojournalistic photography, then you have undoubtedly heard of Magnum. This book is for you if you care about Magnum and are interested in seeing the work of prominent Magnum photographers and reading a bit about the history of Magnum and photography in general.

The book is quite big and heavy. This makes it great to display on a coffee table and to view the powerful photographs, but not so easy to read the 3 essays. Also, the book only covers up to the mid to late 80's. It should be updated to include the Magnum photographers of the 90s. That said, it's is still packed with important and inspiring work.