Description

Featured are 139 contact sheets from 69 photographers, as well as zoom-in details, selected photographs, press cards, notebooks, and spreads from contemporary ps including Life magazine and Picture Post. Further insight into each contact sheet is provided by texts written by the photographers themselves or by experts chosen by the members’ estates. Many of the acknowledged greats of photography are featured, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, and Inge Morath, as well as such members of Magnum’s latest generation as Jonas Bendiksen, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Alec Soth. The contact sheets cover over seventy years of history, from Robert Capa’s Normandy landings and the Paris riots of 1968 via Bruno Barbey, to images of Che Geuvara by René Burri, Malcolm X by Eve Arnold, and portraits of classic New Yorkers by Bruce Gilden.

Signed by 20 Magnum Photographers. Product pictured is not the exact product that will be shipped. Signatures page will be unique to each respective copy. Limited quantities available, price will increase as copies sell out.

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