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Informationen zum Autor Steven Hoelscher is a Professor of American Studies and Geography at the University of Texas at Austin and Academic Curator of Photography at the Harry Ransom Center. His books include Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells and Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies. Klappentext This first reading of the vast Magnum Photos archive as a body of work presents an astonishingly rich survey of life and death in the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries, as well as a concise history of modern photography. Zusammenfassung Provides an overview of the Magnum enterprise, and offers an appreciation of the Magnum archive as a material record of information about the making and disseminating of photographs that is being lost as images on paper are replaced by images on screen. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword (Geoff Dyer)Introduction. Decisive Moments and Caustic Comments: Reading the Magnum Archive (Steven Hoelscher)1. On Becoming an Archive (Alison Nordström)Notes from the Archive: Philip Jones Griffiths's Vietnam Inc.2. War and Conflict through Magnum's Eyes (Barbie Zelizer)War and Conflict PortfolioNotes from the Archive: Eve Arnold's Black Muslims3. The Face Redrawn: Magnum Portraits (Frank H. Goodyear III)Portraiture PortfolioNotes from the Archive: Alex Webb's Crossings: Photographs from the U.S.-Mexico Border4. Magnum's Geographies: Toward a Progressive Sense of Place (Steven Hoelscher)Geography PortfolioNotes from the Archive: Susan Meiselas's Carnival Strippers5. Hollywood Stars, High-Paid Llamas, and Car Shows: Magnum's Cultural Project (Erika Doss)Cultural Life PortfolioNotes from the Archive: Cornell Capa's Attica6. Seeing the Stranger in the Mirror: Everyday Life in Magnum's Public World (Robert Hariman)Social Relations PortfolioNotes from the Archive: David "Chim" Seymour's Children of Europe7. Magnum's Global Enterprise (Liam Kennedy)Globalization PortfolioAcknowledgmentsContributorsIllustration CreditsIndex...
