Magnum Contact Sheets

Best book for every photographer. specially street, documentary n photojournalism

Excellent packaging... Superb read and one of the best collection for photographers and photo enthusiasts..

An amazing book from where we can learn a lot on photography and which takes us as close as possible to their vision. I am yet to complete the book. Thank you amazon

Excellent book. Photographers and photolovers should add this book in his library

superb book..

Es increíble poder ver el proceso de selección del autor de una fotografía famosa, y leer o bien el comentario del mismo autor o de especialistas de la época. No me gusta el encuadernado suave, pero la buena calidad de impresión de las fotografías compensa. Un imprescindible en la biblioteca de un fotógrafo.

Une source inépuisable. Il y a les planches de contact, la finalité choisie et l’histoire qui a suscité le déclenchement des photographes à l’époque de l’argentique.

I've had my eye on the Contact Sheets book for the past few years, and I saw it on Amazon for ~32 USD (45 CAN?) and had to pull the trigger. For this price, I'd say the book is an insane deal. The quality of the book is very good - the pages are smooth with smart edges and decent thickness, and the book cover is well-made with a minimalistic design. The dust cover got a little bit wrinkled during shipping (from Amazon? the vendor?). I'm not too miffed because it shipped all the way from Canada to me (in California), and the wrinkles were all on the corners/binding. Some people in the US amazon complained about poor book binding, but I don't perceive the binding to be a weak-point. Caveat: I've only had the book for a few weeks and babied it, so take that FWIW. The actual content is well laid out and in chronological order. The text have relevant stories leading up to the culmination of the photos. Some of the stories are in-depth than others. The Magnum photographers write about people involved, the events, and the feelings they felt when shooting or selecting photos from their film rolls. I don't have the book with me, nor do I think describing a particular page very useful. If you're already interested in Magnum, you'll probably know a few of the stories behind the photos (e.g. Hoepker's photo of the young people relaxing during 9/11 twin towers incident). However a few stories I was happy to learn more about (e.g. the fortuitous accident involving the photo processing of Frank Capa photo of soldiers on Omaha beach). I only wish that the book covered more photographs and more recent time period.

O livro mostra um pouco do processo criativo de inúmeros fotógrafos a partir de uma ou duas fotos de uma sessão, revelando o processo de busca pela imagem com a folha de contato do rolo da foto consagrada. Em um breve porém suficiente relato o fotógrafo conta a história de como chegou naquele resultado. É simplesmente incrível para quem fotografa.

I read this book cover to cover over the course of a few months. Just a few entries each weekday morning after I dropped my kids off to school. The images are wonderful, of course, but seeing the contact sheets and learning even more about the context in which the photos were taken as told by the photographers themselves (!) just adds to the quality of this fine, fine book. Don't flip through it. Read it page-by-page. When you read the photographer's words about how/when the photos were taken gives so much great background detail. And with that info, once you turn the page to see the full-scale image they've been discussing and setting up?!?! WOW. It's a revelation. A must-have book for any photographer open to inspiration.