《玛格南》系中国国内第一次集中展现玛格南图片社摄影师作品的大型图文摄影集，相当数量的图片在中国尚未公开刊载。全书按照时间倒叙，分为四个主要部分：1990-2005、1970-1989、1960-1969、1930-1959，并为每个部分配有世界形势导读，让读者宛若走进时间倒流的机器，从2005年印度尼西亚的海啸，一直追溯到上个世纪30年代那战火纷飞的动荡岁月。同时，数篇海峡两岸摄影专家为本书专门撰写的内容翔实、观点深刻的评论文章，全面展现了华人摄影人心目中的“玛格南”。　　什么是“玛格南”？“玛格南”，在枪文化发达的美国，很多人都知道它是一种威力强大的左轮手枪子弹，0.50英寸的“玛格南”被认为是威力最强的手枪子弹。另外，“玛格南”在法语里还有“至高无上”“不可思议”的意思，也是一种香槟酒的名字。1947年成立的玛格南图片社是著名的新闻摄影图片社，过去50年多里，玛格南摄影师总能在关键时刻出现在重大事件的发生地。甘地遇刺与肯尼迪遇刺，惟一记录下全过程的都是玛格南的摄影师。玛格南摄影师让照片超越了单纯的新闻性，成为一种文化符号。关于玛格南图片社的名字，据说是创始人之一卡帕从香槟酒的名字得来的灵感。但近60年来，玛格南图片社对世界纪实新闻摄影事业的影响，以及记录历史、针砭时弊的作用，完全可以担当一种威力巨大、至高无上“子弹”的称号。

In Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, Magnum photographer Alex Webb displays his particular ability to distill gesture, color and contrasting cultural tensions into a single, beguiling frame. He presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich with the incandescence of its past--a city of minarets and pigeons rising to the heavens during the early-morning call to Muslim prayers--yet also a city riddled with ATM machines and clothed in designer jeans. Webb began photographing Istanbul in 1998, and became instantly enthralled: by the people, the layers of culture and history, the richness of street life. But what particularly drew him in was a sense of Istanbul as a border city, lying between Europe and Asia. "For 30-some years as a photographer, I have been intrigued by borders, places where cultures come together, sometimes easily, sometimes roughly." The resulting body of work, some of Webb's strongest to date, conveys the frisson of a culture in transition, yet firmly rooted in a complex history. With essay by the Nobel Prize winning novelist, Orhan Pamuk.

这是一本关于马格南图片摄影师们的传记。此书以一种特殊的视角，反映了半个世纪以来，马格南的男女摄影们所目击的种种重大历史事件：战争、饥荒、自然灾害、社会和环境的危机……自从马格南于1947年在美国纽约的现代艺术博物馆成立至今，它的摄影师总是及时出现在世界重大事件的发生地，因此马格南一词已与世界重大事件联在一起。马格南的摄影师们都是些深刻的观察家，他们不但拍摄了世界上最富有的人，也拍摄最贫穷的人，拍摄那些最不受社会关注的人，同时也拍摄著名的人物，从玛丽莲·梦露到切·格瓦拉，从肯尼迪到纳尔逊·曼德拉，从毕加索到赫鲁晓夫。这也是一个多层次的故事书，在某一层次讲到几个摄影师，其中有罗伯特·卡帕、亨利·卡蒂安-布列松和乔治·罗杰，他们聚到一起创立和养育了这个世界上独一无二的摄影师的联合体，克服了种种困难，最终成为最著名的摄影图片社。从另一个层次，又讲到摄影师们自己的故事，生动、丰富地描述了这个当代团体中的男男女女，他们的共同点是热爱摄影和他们对工作的献身精神。当然还有一个层次，那就是关注他们在世界各地的种种冒险故事。他们对危险的反应和他们所承担的任务。这本书没有太多关注摄影本身的谈论，这方面马格南的摄影师们已做出了最好的贡献。

Here is the popular yet complete paperback edition of the hugely acclaimed Magnum Magnum, which was an instant sellout on first publication in 2007. It celebrates sixty years of the vision, imagination and brilliance of Magnum photographers in over 400 photographs by the acknowledged greats of photography in the 20th century and the rising stars of our time. Each photographer is represented by six of their works as chosen by, and including a critical text by, another member. Including biographies of the featured photographers, a history of Magnum Photos by Brigitte Lardinois and a bibliography of Magnum books, Magnum Magnum makes available to a wider audience one of the greatest photography anthologies of recent years an essential book for anyone interested in photography or the world depicted by it.

Marc Riboud's images are a window on a world in transition as China reinvents itself with dizzying speed--his is as revealing a window as we are likely to find. The contrast between China old and new, as interpreted by Riboud, is an often startling one that cannot help but inform and intrigue. He specializes in the juxtaposition of images, perhaps none are more jarring than his photograph of a poor man lugging a sack of belongings down a trash-littered back street while a pair of chubby-cheeked babies glance over his shoulder in a nearby poster and a porno actress bares her chest in an ad overhead. Riboud's home is France, his territory is the world from Vietnam to Iran, but his heart and soul are apparently in the China he has covered from the days of Mao's revolution through the erosion of Communism to the country's modern economic upheaval.