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Magnum Stories Hardcover – December 1, 2004

by Chris Boot (Author)

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This book explores how some of the world's greatest photographers take, edit and lay out pictures. Using the 'photo story' as a vehicle to explain their approach, the book features work by 61 members of the prestigious Magnum photo agency.
The book spans a variety of photographic genres such as war and documentary photography, photojournalism, social realism, portraiture, landscapes, fashion and news.
Magnum Stories explores the influences that have affected the photo story and how it has been utilized, published and adapted by key events and publications such as Newsweek, Time and Paris Match, which have helped define the genre. This book provides a unique and in-depth reflection on the course of photography during the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

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512 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Phaidon Press
Publication date

December 1, 2004
Grade level

8 and up
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13 years and up
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11 x 2.25 x 1 inches
ISBN-10

0714842451
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978-0714842455
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Imagine having 61 widely published photographers from around the world candidly discuss their careers and beliefs while showing you key images from their portfolios. That is the engaging concept of Magnum Stories. From Iran-born Abbas (whose career began with a series about the Vietcong in the 1970s) to Patrick Zachmann (who has documented the lives of Malian immigrants in his native France), each photographer is given ample space to talk about his or her work. Editor Chris Boot accompanies the interviews with a brief explanation of the cultural or political background of each suite of images. The one thing the interviewees have in common is past or current membership in Magnum, a photographers' cooperative founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and David Seymour as a means of breaking free from the editorial tyranny of Life and other photo-based magazines. Boot's introduction deftly summarizes Magnum's history and the practicalities of postwar photography. The presence of vintage "Magnum stories" by such photographers as Erich Hartmann ("Our Daily Bread") and W. Eugene Smith ("Country Doctor") adds a welcome historical dimension. While the founding generation were mostly photo-journalists who organized their images into visual "stories," today's members often pursue topics of personal interest with photographs that do not relate a straightforward narrative. These topics range from outlaw biker gangs in the U.S. (Dennis Stock) to the mountain peoples of Laos, Guatemala and Georgia (John Vink), from the tacky seaside resort of New Brighton in Liverpool, England (Martin Parr) to Siberian prison camps (Carl De Keyzer). With nearly 800 illustrations, this distinctive, square-format book offers a kaleidoscopic survey of the many faces of documentary photography. -Cathy Curtis

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Phaidon Press; First edition (December 1, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714842451
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714842455
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.9 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11 x 2.25 x 1 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,342,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Large book. Great stuff.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 2, 2020

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I love this book. I bought two.. Really. Always a great source of inspiration—both the interview and photos.

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YesISaidIt

Great insight into the photos

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2019

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This book is large and heavy (just FYI - hard to read in bed). It does a great job talking about the photos and the background stories.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2014

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The pictures and content are outstanding!! Information of each photographer and time in history is just amazing! I also love the quality of the paper.

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JohnL

Fascinating

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2005

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A very mixed bag of outstanding photographers, and hundreds of great pictures, many of which I have not seen anywhere else.

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David M. Pond

Brings it all to life....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2015

Fabulous collection of shooters. Beautiful and dynamic layout kept me engaged and still does after all these years. Keep going back for inspiration from this book.

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Thomas Edwards

Brilliant Anthology Of Decisive Moments

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2007

This is a brilliant anthology of the "decisive moments" of the collective individuals who made up the legendary photo agency, Magnum.

Magnum Stories allows one to peer into the mind's eye of the most influential photojournalists of the 20th Century; part history book (as Rodger would have intended), part art book (as HCB would have intended), part photographic teaching book (as Capa would have intended), part autobiography(ies) book, and all at a price that Chim would have appreciated.

One is encouraged to read (simultaneously, if possible) Russell Miller's "Magnum - Fifty Years At The Front Line Of History" to complete the "Big Picture" of the individual Decisive Moments to fully understand the impact of the brilliant artifice constructed by Capa, Chim, HCB and Rodger in that noteworthy spring of 1947.

That said, one would have wished that the other significant actors in the House of Magnum, such as Ernest Haas, Sebastiao Salgado and Mary-Ellen Mark, would have been included in Magnum Stories. Otherwise - Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

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Peter Randall

Unreadable

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2008

I was looking forward to this book, to read it and add it to my large photo book collection. Many of the greatest photographers of the 20th century belonged to Magnum, but they have been failed by this poorly designed book. The type is too small and stretches into the gutters. Shame on the designers and the publisher for producing what should have been a great book. I returned mine!

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Katherine

Arrived on time good condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 23, 2022

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Love this Magnum book . Full of photographs and interesting to have the actual individual photographers / information. An amazing gift for someone!

The Collector

A pleasure to look at

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 23, 2014

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This is a fascinating book to look at (rather than read) It's the sort of book you dip into rather than read from page one forwards. Really, my only criticism is that it weighs a ton and, by virtue of its size and bulk it's impossible to read as you sit in an armchair. It would have been much better to divide it into two volumes and sell it as a boxed set.
It's still a remarkable piece of work.

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Agata Lambrechts

Great present for any photographer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 13, 2013

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Bought it as a gift for my husband who is an aspiring photographer - he wanted this book for a long time and he wasnt disappointed. He is using it as a reference all the time.

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Marta Blotnicka

I love this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 3, 2015

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I love this book. Great stories, inspiring pictures. Only problem is it is so huge and heavy I need to read it lying properly on a table.

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Ms M C Monroe

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 18, 2017

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The best gift I've brought myself 😍😍

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