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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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  Israel, 50 Years : As Seen by Magnum Photographers

  "When I aired my doubts about Israel's immigration policy to one of the high government officials, he told me: 'By any logic, the creation of the state of Israel was not possible. It was born through a will stronger than reason, and grew through suffering greater than human beings are expected to support.' But the new country, born out of victorious battle, is granted no peace."--Robert Capa, 1948 The year 1998... (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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  Marc Riboud in China

  by Marc Riboud, Jean Daniel

  In 1956 Marc Riboud became one of the first Western photographers to enter China since the Communist takeover of 1949--and he was permitted to return regularly over the next four decades. This book presents his compelling record of the far-reaching and rapid changes that have taken place as China has evolved through the revolutionary era into a puritanical tyranny, and finally into a mirror of the capitalist West.... (more)
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  Koudelka

  by Josef Koudelka

  Stark, impassioned, and singularly intense, the work of the itinerant and fiercely independent Czech photographer, Josef Koudelka, has received deserved acclaim over the past three decades for having made a uniquely significant contribution to the language of photography. This major new monograph presents the most comprehensive survey of Koudelka's work to date, bringing together more than 150 of his most eloquent... (more)
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  Arcadia

  by Paul H. Manning

  Exeter, vampire capital of the New World… New Englanders of an unenlightened age held Exeter to be the hub of malevolent nocturnal predators. The persistence of time has eroded such superstition to the faded edge of our subconscious recollections… The hollow threat of the supernatural no longer looms in the autumn darkness. But in 1996 something returned from beyond the fog of our perception, something malignant... (more)
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  Magnum Magnum

  "Encompasses sixty years of photography by the legendary agency."— Vogue Since its founding in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David "Chim" Seymour, Magnum Photos, the legendary co-operative has powerfully chronicled the peoples, cultures, events, and issues of the time. Magnum Magnum brings together the best work, celebrating the vision, imagination, and brilliance of Magnum... (more)
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  Fashion Magazine by Lise Sarfati

  This edition of Fashion Magazine is devoted solely to the work of French photographer Lise Sarfati. In her portraiture, Sarfati dramatizes the intensities of fashionably clad adolescence in the insolently sensual creatures she encounters on the roads of America. Couching their lightly worn street elegance in moody sobriety, Sarfati presses pause" on the activities in which her subjects are engaged and extracts... (more)
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  The Child Finder Trilogy

  Child Finder

  by Mike Angley

  Child Finder Inspired by Real Life Experiences... Follow the Paranormal Adventures of an Air Force Special Agent as the Government Exploits His Psychic Abilities to Rescue Abducted Children Major Patrick O Donnell, an Air Force Special Agent assigned to the Pentagon, begins experiencing haunting nightmares about children who have been abducted and murdered before their bodies are found. It quickly becomes... (more)
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  Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa

  by Alex Kershaw

  A biography on the brilliant war photographer, from his early childhood in Hungary as Andre Friedmann to his self-invention as the great Robert Capa.
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  The Child Finder Trilogy

  Child Finder Resurrection

  by Mike Angley

  It has been a year and a half since Air Force Special Agent Patrick O’Donnell left the secret child rescue program after it went horribly off-track, resulting in murder and endangering his own family. And just when he thinks he’s comfortably put this painful past behind him, he receives a call from his mentor. The murky, shadowy Top Secret community where he once was center-stage has been revised, revamped,... (more)
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  Magnum contact sheets

  More than 120 contact sheets selected by some seventy Magnum photographers or their estates: a definitive book on how the best photographs are created and edited. Contact sheets unveil the story of what went into a photograph. Was it the outcome of what a photographer had in mind from the outset? Did it emerge from a diligently worked sequence? Was the right shot a matter of being in the right place at the right... (more)