Magnum Contact Sheets

This is the compact edition of the definitive volume on how iconic images by Magnum photographers are made. Newly re-formatted and with 16 extra pages, this publication features superb reproductions of more than 130 contact sheets and over 200 photographs taken from the sheets, bearing witness to the creative methods, strategies and editing processes used by many of the acknowledged greats of photography. Whether George Rodger's photographs of the Blitz in 1940, Philippe Halsman's memorably surreal image of a leaping Salvador Dali, Burt Glinn capturing the end of segregation in 1950s Arkansas, David Hurn photographing the Beatles in 1964, Joseph Koudelka's extraordinary images of the invasion of Prague, Susan Meiselas in Nicaragua in the 1970s, Raymond Depardon at the fall of the Berlin Wall, Larry Towell in El Salvador, Bruce Gilden photographing classic New York scenes or Jim Goldberg creating his remarkable, experimental artworks, the contact sheets and images in this book constitute an extraordinary record of great images being captured and edited.

Review: 'Utterly absorbing. To be able to follow dozens upon dozens of the most recognised images of the 20th century backwards through the selection process gives these pictures a new immediacy and vitality ... fascinating and surprisingly intimate' - John Banville, The Daily Telegraph

'Magnificent ... every compelling page gives us an intimate and exciting sense of walking alongside the photographer' - RA Magazine

'A treasure trove' - Andrew Motion, The Guardian

'Excellent value ... a fascinating book that can not only be enjoyed for itself but can be utilised as a great learning tool for the most difficult task of all - picture editing' - Black & White Photography 

 

 1930-49 1933 HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON Seville 1936 CHIM (DAVID SEYMOUR) Woman in the Crowd 1936 HERBERT LIST Man and Dog, Portofino 1938 ROBERT CAPA The Battle of Rio Segre 1940 WERNER BISCHOF Mountains 1940 GEORGE RODGER The Blitz 1941 GEORGE RODGER Western Desert 1944 ROBERT CAPA D-Day 1945 ROBERT CAPA Leipzig 1946 HERBERT LIST Plaster Casts at the Academy 1948 CHIM (DAVID SEYMOUR) Girls Sewing 1948 PHILIPPE HALSMAN Dali Atomicus 1950-59 1951 WERNER BISCHOF Courtyard of the Meiji Temple 1953 ELLIOTT ERWITT Mother and Child 1953 MARC RIBOUD Eiffel Tower Painter 1955 CORNELL CAPA Fall of Peron 1956 ERICH LESSING Budapest 1957 BURT GLINN Little Rock, Arkansas 1957 INGE MORATH A Llama in Times Square 1959 EVE ARNOLD Joan Crawford 1959 ELLIOTT ERWITT Kitchen Debate 1959 BURT GLINN Fidel Castro 1959 MARILYN SILVERSTONE The Dalai Lama 1960-69 1960 RENE BURRI Ministry of Health 1960 INGE MORATH Refugee Camps 1961 EVE ARNOLD Malcolm X 1961 CORNELL CAPA The White House 1961 BRUCE DAVIDSON Civil Rights Movement 1961 PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS Boy Destroying Piano 1962 CONSTANTINE MANOS Women at Graveside 1963 RENE BURRI Ernesto 'Che' Guevara 1964 LEONARD FREED Martin Luther King 1964 DAVID HURN The Beatles 1965 DAVID HURN Jean Straker 1966 THOMAS HOEPKER Muhammad Ali 1967 PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS Wounded Vietnamese Civilian 1968 BRUNO BARBEY Paris Riots 1968 PAUL FUSCO Robert Kennedy Funeral Train 1968 JOSEF KOUDELKA Prague Invasion 1968 DENNIS STOCK California Rock Concert 1968 DENNIS STOCK Playa del Rey 1969 RICHARD KALVAR Woman in Window 1969 GUY LE QUERREC Miles Davis 1970-79 1970 RAGHU RAI Mother Teresa 1972 GILLES PERESS Bloody Sunday 1972 FERDINANDO SCIANNA Dog on the Ghat 1973 GUY LE QUERREC Artichoke Harvest 1973 SUSAN MEISELAS Carnival Strippers 1974 IAN BERRY The English 1976 MICHA BAR-AM The Return from Entebbe 1976 MARTINE FRANCK Le Brusc 1976 CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS The Teds 1977 JIM GOLDBERG TJ 1978 RAYMOND DEPARDON Chad 1978 LEONARD FREED Police Work 1978 HIROJI KUBOTA The Golden Rock 1978 GEORGE RODGER Circumcision Ceremony 1978 ALEX WEBB Prostitutes 1979 ABBAS Armed Militants outside the US Embassy 1979 SUSAN MEISELAS Sandinista 1980-89 1980 RICHARD KALVAR Piazza della Rotonda 1981 PETER MARLOW Margaret Thatcher 1981 PETER MARLOW Northern Ireland 1981 MARTIN PARR Bad Weather 1983 STEVE McCURRY Dust Storm 1984 BRUCE GILDEN San Gennaro Street Festival 1985 IAN BERRY Apartheid Funeral 1985 MARTIN PARR Last Resort 1985 JOHN VINK Filling Guerbas with Water 1986 STUART FRANKLIN Moss Side Estate 1986 JEAN GAUMY Shooting Practice 1987 MARC RIBOUD Klaus Barbie's Trial 1987 FERDINANDO SCIANNA Marpessa 1988 PATRICK ZACHMANN The 'Walled City' 1989 RAYMOND DEPARDON The Wall 1989 STUART FRANKLIN Tiananmen Square 1989 JIM GOLDBERG Signing Off 1989 JOSEF KOUDELKA Nord-Pas-de-Calais 1989 GUEORGUI PINKHASSOV Earthquake in Armenia 1990-99 1990 PATRICK ZACHMANN Police Violence 1991 CARL DE KEYZER Good Friday Parade 1991 CARL DE KEYZER Ku Klux Klan 1991 NIKOS ECONOMOPOULOS Central Railway Station 1991 LARRY TOWELL Young Guerillas 1992 JEAN GAUMY Tuna Fishing 1993 MARK POWER The Shipping Forecast 1993 LARRY TOWELL Kids with Toy Guns 1995 CRISTINA GARCIA RODERO Maternity Ward 1995 ELI REED Rwandan Refugees 1996 MARTINE FRANCK Buddhist Monks 1996 LARRY TOWELL Mennonites 1997 CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS Mental Home 1998 CHIEN-CHI CHANG The Chain 1998 BRUCE GILDEN Yakuza 1998 TRENT PARKE Summer Rain 1999 ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI The Necklace 1999 CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS Mount Fuji 2000-10 2000 CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON Haitian Immigrants 2000 JACOB AUE SOBOL Sabine 2000 BRUNO BARBEY Morocco 2000 JONAS BENDIKSEN Satellites 2000 THOMAS DWORZAK Chechen Fighters 2000 ELLIOTT ERWITT Bulldogs 2000 TRENT PARKE The Seventh Wave 2000 PAOLO PELLEGRIN Serb Funeral 2001 CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON The Battle for Kunduz 2001 DAVID ALAN HARVEY Carnival 2001 THOMAS HOEPKER 9/11 2002 CRISTINA GARCIA RODERO Saut d'Eau 2002 PAOLO PELLEGRIN West Bank 2002 ALEC SOTH Mother and Daughter 2002 DONOVAN WYLIE Maze Prison 2003 PAOLO PELLEGRIN Palestine Wall 2004 TRENT PARKE Super Possum 2005 ABBAS American GIs on Patrol 2005 MARK POWER The Sound of Two Songs 2006 ANTOINE D'AGATA Boystown 2006 MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY Beaufort West 2010 CHIEN-CHI CHANG Travelogue 2010 JIM GOLDBERG Proof Note on the Authors Note on Sources Acknowledgments