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More to Read about Magnum & Photojournalism

Author of Reading Magnum: A Visual Archive of the Twentieth Century, Steven Hoelscher, recommends more to read about Magnum Photos and photojournalism history.

Hoelscher further

Magnum Stories, edited by Chris Boot. London: Phaidon, 2004.

A former bureau chief of Magnum’s London office, Chris Boot presents 61 different “photo stories,” as told by individual Magnum photographers.

Magnum Contact Sheets, edited by Kristen Lubben. London: Thames and Hudson, 2012.

This book features 139 contact sheets and ancillary material of some of the most iconic images produced by Magnum photographers.

Fred Ritchin, Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen. New York: Aperture, 2013.

The complex relationship between social justice and photojournalism in today’s oversaturated political and media climates is a central concern of Magnum Photos, and this book, written by a former photo editor at the New York Times, presents many of issues at the center of the transition from analog to digital photography.

“Roundtable: American Faces: Twentieth-Century American Photographs,” Journal of American History, vol. 94, no. 1 (June 2007).

With articles by historians and interdisciplinary scholars, the special issue presents a series of methodological and theoretical statements about the use of photographs as primary historical sources.

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