This book is a biography of Magnum - the legendary photo agency - told largely in the words of its photographers. It offers a unique perspective on half a century of world history from an extraordinary group of men and women who were front line witnesses at virtually every major event in the last fifty years. Wars, famines, natural disasters, social, political and environmental crises - Magnum photographers were there as acute observers of the human condition, photographing the richest people in the world, the poorest, the least known and the most celebrated.
It tells how a small group of photographers came together, established and nurtured a co-operative photographic agency that has survived against all odds. It is the story of the photographers themselves, a wonderfully disparate, colourful and sometimes temperamental group of men and women. It is the richly anecdotal story of their adventures around the world.
A fascinating book which reminds us that photography is still the dominant visual art of our time.
