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  Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo Agency

  by Russell Miller

  Since Magnum was founded in 1947, its members have been on hand to bear witness on the front line of world history. From Robert Capa's stark photograph of a Loyalist soldier being shot in the head during the Spanish Civil War to Eve Arnold's astonishingly intimate portraits of well-known faces - from Joan Crawford to Malcolm X - Magnum has changed how we perceive our political leaders, social crises, and the... (more)
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  An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson

  by Henri Cartier-Bresson

  "No one in the twentieth century created more instantly recognizable images than Cartier-Bresson."— Denver Post Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was perhaps the finest and most influential image maker of the twentieth century, and his portraits are among his best-known work. Over a fifty year period, he photographed some of the most eminent personalities of the era, as well as ordinary people, chosen as... (more)
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  The mind's eye : writings on photography and photographers

  by Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Henri Cartier-Bresson's indelible writings on photography and photographers have been published sporadically over the past forty-five years. His essays--several of which have never before been translated into English--are collected here for the first time. The Mind's Eye features Cartier-Bresson's famous text on "the decisive moment" as well as his observations on Moscow, Cuba, and China during turbulent times.... (more)