9780714836423: Magnum Landscape

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SKU 9780714836423
Title Magnum Landscape
Author Description Foreword by Ian Jeffrey
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Web Author Description Ian Jeffrey is a photography writer, lecturer and curator. His other books include The Photography Book also published by Phaidon, Portraits of Artists (2000) and Revisions: An Alternative History of Photography (1999).
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In the tradition of monumental Magnum books, this publication brings together an eclectic assortment of work by the finest photographers of our time, capturing a riveting and seductive series of fleeting moments around the world. For half a century, Magnum photographers - through countless commissions and their own personal work - have produced images that comment on the state of the world. In photographing the landscape they are not just spectators but participants, aware that the land itself has been shaped by man, and that the very notion of a landscape depends on a human viewpoint. As each photographer records and interprets a diversity of subject matter to form a unique personal style, the variations on this theme are endless - landscapes of war, of agriculture, of industry, of cities and motorways, of desolation, celebration and tranquillity.

The photographs assimilated in this book invite us to rediscover landscape, and urge us to think more profoundly not only about planet earth in its entirety, but about our own place in it.

Binding Hardback
Size Size: 150 x 210 mm (5 7/8 x 8 1/4 in)
Pages Pages: 184
Illustrations 32

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I\u0026#8217;ll guarantee it will change the way you look through your viewfinder when you get out the Instamatic.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eBBC Homes \u0026amp; Antiques\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Informal and interesting.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eWhat\u0026#8217;s on in Birmingham\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n \n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The book illustrates the power of the still photograph to put an alternative slant on reality... \u003cem\u003eMagnum Landscape\u003c/em\u003e inspires the viewer to consider our relationship with the earth and its role as a changing backdrop to human affairs.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eLandscape Design\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The 184 pages here present a range of styles and formats... But despite the apparent heterogeneity of the collected images, there emerges in the pages... a certain unity, an approach to documenting the physical world that is uniquely Magnum\u0026#8217;s. This approach is rooted in the belief that the very idea of landscape depends on people\u0026#8217;s participation in it... But... these photographers avoid the clich\u0026#233; of people\u0026#8217;s role as destroyer and turn their attention instead to those scenes where human entry into the landscape seems almost tentative, human control tenuous or at risk: Burri\u0026#8217;s image of a sand-covered road in Abu Dhabi, for example, or Larry Towell\u0026#8217;s cover photograph of Mexican Mennonite women caught in a dust storm. It is images such as these that we find \u003cem\u003eMagnum Landscape\u003c/em\u003e\u0026#8217;s particular power... Readers of this book will certainly come away with... an appreciation of the work of some of Magnum\u0026#8217;s lesser-known members... The photographs in this book are strong enough to speak for themselves. They comprise, without question, a powerful collective vision of the world. For that reason, Magnum Landscape is a necessary volume, one which illustrates that Magnum photographers have produced some of the very best work in a crowded, too-often tired genre.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Photo Review\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The Magnum book stretches the definition of landscape...\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Picture Professional\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;If you want to see how some of the finest photographers in the world approach landscape, pick up this book... 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