Books: Pictures that do all the talking ; Magnum Stories, edited by Chris Boot, Phaidon, pounds 45. Reviewed by Martin Faint FIRST Edition

Take the introduction to Story Lines - the Tate book accompanying the gallery's recent Robert Frank exhibition - where author Ian Penman writes sentences such as: 'New forms of filmmaking: a chiaroscuro of rough phantasy and rad pol and fad pop, with a near rabbinical attention to contextu...

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Published inBirmingham post (Birmingham, England)
Main Author Boot, Chris
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Birmingham (UK) Mirror Regional Newspapers 19.02.2005
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Boot, Chris
Parr, Martin
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Summary:Take the introduction to Story Lines - the Tate book accompanying the gallery's recent Robert Frank exhibition - where author Ian Penman writes sentences such as: 'New forms of filmmaking: a chiaroscuro of rough phantasy and rad pol and fad pop, with a near rabbinical attention to contextual detail.' Or just a page later: 'Young Robert's own predisposition or inheritance is a form of rabbinical scrupulousness when it comes to questions of representation, integrity, remembrance.' This was founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, George Rodger, David 'Chim' Setmour and Henri Cartier-Bresson to give its members creative freedom from the restrictions of commercial photojournalism and the magazine writers who all too often shaped the photographer's work. The agency, which is still wholly owned by its members, went on to attract an incredible array of talent and characters, with interests from the eclectic to the universal. From Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographs covering the assassination of Ghandi to Martin Parr's look at New Brighton beach in Liverpool, Magnum Stories is a rich and wonderful collection of life, viewed through some of the sharpest eyes around.