Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History by Russell Miller

By Russell Miller

This ebook is a biography of Magnum, instructed principally within the phrases of its photographers. It deals a special standpoint on part a century of global heritage from a rare crew of fellows and ladies who have been entrance line witnesses at nearly each significant occasion within the final fifty years. Wars, famines, ordinary failures, social, political and environmental crises - Magnum photographers have been there. they've been acute observers of the human , photographing the richest humans on this planet, the poorest, the least identified and the main celebrated, from Marilyn Monroe to Che Guevara, JFK to Nelson Mandela, Picasso to Krushchev. it is a multi-layered tale. At one point, it tells how a small crew of photographrs - between them Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger - got here jointly, demonstrated and nurtured a co-operative photographic organisation that has survived opposed to the entire odds to turn into the main well-known on the earth. At a secondary point, it's the richly anecdotal tale of the photographers themselves, their adventures all over the world and their emotions approximately, and reactions to, their assignments.

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