Magnum Contact Sheets - Tapa dura

...a magnificent compendium of raw images from the photography cooperative. A rare revelation. [This book]...offers unique insight into the working progress of the celebrated agency's photographers over the past seven decades--their approach to taking and editing their pictures as well as their idiosyncratic relationships with the contact sheet. . . .a magnificent compendium of raw images from the photography cooperative. This 500-page volume provides a peek at the process behind these photos, showing the shots taken before and after each standout and letting the photographers tell how they made their choices. Gives unprecedented access into the creative process of some of the world's greatest photographers.

This special and important photography book presents, for the first time, the very best contact sheets created by Magnum photographers. Contact sheets tell the truth behind a photograph. They unveil its process, and provide its back story. Was it the outcome of what a photographer had in mind from the outset? Did it emerge from a diligently worked sequence, or was the right shot down to pure serendipity a matter of being in the right place at the right time? This landmark publication provides the reader with a depth of understanding and a critical analysis of the story behind a photograph, the process of editing it, and the places and ways in which the selected photographs were used. For anyone with a deep appreciation of photography and a desire to understand what goes into creating iconic work, Magnum Contact Sheets will be regarded as the definitive volume. With 435 illustrations in total, 230 in colour, including over 3,600 frames on 139 contact sheets.