Table of Contents

• 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 Portfolio
• Notes from the Archive: Eve Arnold's Black Muslims
• 3. The Face Redrawn: Magnum Portraits (Frank H. Goodyear III)
• Portraiture Portfolio
• Notes from the Archive: Alex Webb's Crossings: Photographs from the U.S.-Mexico Border
• 4. Magnum's Geographies: Toward a Progressive Sense of Place (Steven Hoelscher)
• Geography Portfolio
• Notes from the Archive: Susan Meiselas's Carnival Strippers
• 5. Hollywood Stars, High-Paid Llamas, and Car Shows: Magnum's Cultural Project (Erika Doss)
• Cultural Life Portfolio
• Notes from the Archive: Cornell Capa's Attica
• 6. Seeing the Stranger in the Mirror: Everyday Life in Magnum's Public World (Robert Hariman)
• Social Relations Portfolio
• Notes from the Archive: David "Chim" Seymour's Children of Europe
• 7. Magnum's Global Enterprise (Liam Kennedy)
• Globalization Portfolio
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Illustration Credits
• Index

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"There are more than 200,000 photographs just from the New York office of Magnum, the legendary photo cooperative (Magnum has four offices around the globe). Drawing from that archive, American Studies scholar Steven Hoelscher and other contributors mine the images (of war, social upheaval, celebrities: you name it) for insight into how photography has influenced our world, and vice-versa. With photos from major photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Robert Capa, among others." - Kirkus "In Reading Magnum: A Visual Archive of the Modern World - which Photo Magazine recently named Book of the Year, - Hoelscher and a team of seven international scholars offer an in-depth account of the Magnum photographs as they are shuffled around from one publication to another and viewed in a wide range of contexts." - Life and Letters "This book has seven definitive chapters as well as an introduction that offers us an overview of how the archive might be read. Some of the chapters deal with particular genres: portraits, war, celebrity shots; while other cover generic subjects: globalization, everyday life, geography, and a sense of place. They are all lavishly and appropriately illustrated [...] All the chapters are well researched and interestingly written and provide a useful introduction to the superb body of work contained within the archive." - Exposure "Each chapter begins with an authoritative interpretative text, followed by a picture portfolio that often includes data regarding the original assignments or their first appearance in published form [...] it is a meaningful accompaniment to monographs on the individual photographers. Summing Up: Recommended" - Choice