Magnum Contact Sheets

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I have been exploring this book regularly over the past month and find that the biographical details and illuminating notes on the individual photographers work featured to be consistently rewarding.

One thing is for sure: if you do not have a copy of Magnum Contact Sheets on your bookshelf you cannot be serious about photography. For those worried about the new edition lacking some of the content of the first book - have no fear. Presenting a remarkable selection of contact sheets and related material by 67 Magnum photographers, Magnum Contact Sheets lays bare the creative methods, strategies and editing processes behind some of the world’s most iconic images — was the final image a set-up, or a serendipitous encounter; did the photographer work to extract the potential from a situation, or was it the fabled ‘decisive moment’?

The photographs themselves are reproduced beautifully, and the paper quality does seem top-of-the-range. I've personally had no trouble with it (though it seemed generally stiff at first) - it does appear to open a little better with more-use, like most books. Content contributor – become a part of the world’s biggest film and alternative photography community blog. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Any photographer, whether you're new or a veteran, should have magnum contact sheets on their bookshelf.

The presentation and chosen scale allows for an experience close to viewing actual size contact sheets allowing the reader to view individual frames easily. com are the exclusive property of the named author (except where stated otherwise) and are protected by copyright.

A contact sheet is a sequence of negatives printed directly onto photographic paper (I recently wrote a post about making contact sheets, if you’re interested). I think photographers should behave like him,” says Riboud, “he was free and carried little equipment” (p74). I would have selected the first one myself, but the photographer is right, I'd never considered that the moment of something about to happen is more powerful than the event taking place. Two shots just of him and his shadow, but then she recomposes to include the figures in the background.

Getting to handle and see amazing work up close and personal as well as being given the opportunity to look through the viewfinder after he composed a shot.contact sheets, representing 69 photographers, are featured, as well as zoom-in details, selected photographs, press cards, notebooks and spreads from contemporary publications, including Life magazine and Picture Post.

Depending on the book, I will usually put markers in, perhaps in pencil or, in the case of glossy pages like this, little post-it markers. Magnum Contact Sheets reveals the unseen pictures that led to the creation of some of the most iconic and historic images of the modern world, taken by photography's top names. Today even film shooters rarely if ever get to the contact sheet stage, preferring to simply scan their selects. With the rise of digital photography, the contact sheet has, in many ways, been relegated an anachronism—a vestigial relic of the medium’s past. He notices the painters high above, climbs up the tower, and makes several pictures, among which is that unforgettable image of Zazou.Given that each photo is accompanied by a narrative about how it came about, in some cases I would have preferred to see other, and in my opinion better, photos by the same photographers. The entries are organised into seven chronological sections, starting with 1930–49 and ending with 2000–10.