Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955
Mary Panzer, , afterword by Christian Caujolle. . Aperture/World Press Photo, $75 (384pp) ISBN 978-1-59711-014-3
When the World Press Photo organization wanted to issue a commemorative volume that would dynamically trace developments in the last half-century of photojournalism, they had a very good idea: instead of presenting just a selection of memorable images, they would also reproduce the context—the actual pages of newspapers and magazines—in which the images first appeared. The result is a resounding technical success; the volume is big enough to clearly reproduce a variety of formats while remaining comfortable to look through. The book is also exceptionally well edited, with spare but helpful texts, an intelligent mix of the familiar (Salgado's 1987 series of Brazilian miners for the
Reviewed on: 02/20/2006
Genre: Nonfiction