The New York Times Magazine Photographs - Tapa dura

Covering three decades, this volume showcases The New York Times Magazine's reliable blend of ambitious photojournalism and inventive illustrative work.--Jack Crager "American Photo "

Compiled in an impeccably designed and gorgeously reproduced coffee table book, the photographs commissioned by The New York Times Magazine are a revelation -- arguably, the most wide-ranging and accomplished photojournalistic body of work of the past many decades.--Kathy Ryan "NPR Books "

Every photograph stops time. This is the most banal, technical fact about the medium and also the source of its uncanny and remarkably durable power. The relentless momentum of mundane existence is stilled by the shutter, and some of the mysteries implicit in everyday life open up. A moment -- of high artifice or raw candor, of posed elegance or composed chaos -- is captured and then, later, delivered to our contemplative gaze...Thousands of photographs have appeared in the magazine. More than 250 of them -- revealing portraits of the famous; documents of atrocity and heroism; sensitive studies of everyday life; unclassifiable works of art -- have been collected into a book, "The New York Times Magazine Photographs," edited by the magazine's director of photography, Kathy Ryan...--A.O. Scott "The New York Times Magazine "

Easily one of the most impressive photography books of the year--Rebecca Horne "The Wall Street Journal "

For more information, please contact Kellie McLaughlin T (212) 946-7130 E kmclaughlin@aperture.org Distributed by Thames & Hudson Ltd. c/o Littlehampton Book Services, Faraday Close, Durrington, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3RB England Customer Service T +44 (0) 1903 828 501 E enquiries@lbsltd.co.uk Direct Order Desk T +44 (0) 1903 828 511 F +44 (0) 1903 828 801/02 E orders@lbsltd.co.uk 9½ x 11½ in. (24.1 x 29.2 cm) ca. 456 pages ca. 500 four-color images Hardcover with jacket ISBN 978-1-59711-146-1 $75.00; £45.00 September 2011 Rights: World English, except France, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria For over thirty years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. Aperture is pleased to present the upcoming publication and exhibition The New York Times Magazine Photographs, which reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution. Edited by Kathy Ryan, long-time photo editor of the magazine, and with a preface by former editorial director Gerald Marzorati, this volume presents some of the finest commissioned photographs worldwide in four sections: reportage, portraiture, style, and conceptual photography, including photo illustration. Diverse in content and sensibility, and consistent in virtuosity, the photographs are accompanied by reproduced tear sheets to allow for the examination of sequencing and the interplay between text and image, simultaneously presenting the work while illuminating its distillation to magazine form. This process is explored further through texts offering behind-the-scenes perspective and anecdotes by the many photographers, writers, editors, and other collaborators whose voices have been a part of the magazine over the years. David Campany contributes a critical essay that provides an in-depth history of the magazine’s relationship to photography, contextualizing its contributions within the larger world of magazine work. Also addressed are issues of documentary photography in relation to more conceptual photography; the efficacy of story-telling; and what makes an image evidentiary, objective, subjective, truthful, or a tool for advocacy; as well as thoughts on whether these matters are currently moot, or more critical than ever. As such, The New York Times Magazine Photographs aims to serve as a springboard for a rigorous, necessary, and revitalized examination of photography as presented within a modern journalistic context.