Photo Journalism Book Reviews

For those who fancy a nostalgia trip, this series of nine books covering nine decades from 1900 to 1990s will be right up your street, or in this book right up the street of 1940 British people where many of the photos were taken by press photographers in that era. This collection of photos is material that would have appeared in national and local newspapers and has been archived by the Press Association. A great visual guide to the people of Britain in difficult times, shows tragedy, celebrat...

Probably the most comprehensive and informative book on Magnum yet. This 568 page brick, edited by Brigitte Lardinois, delivers a mini portfolio of each of 69 Magnum photographers. If anyone should know the insides of the business it's Brigitte who spent 10 years as Special Projects and Cultrual Director at Magnum Photos in London. She's gathered together personal choices of each photographer into a collection of over 400 photos to deliver a snapshot of the 60 years the photography and photograp...

We've reviewed Yann's books before and always been inspired by the incredible aerial viewpoints. This version takes a totally different approach thanks to the assistance of Isabel Delannoy. Isabel is a writer specialising in the environment and society so she's selected Yann's incredible photos to illustrate points about environmental issues such as global warming, human exploitation and pollution. "Wow" becomes "Really?" The book has over 150 pages with twice as many poignant facts. It makes a ...

Assignments is an illustrative book of works from Press Photographers in 2005. Laid out like a newspaper, it starts with hard hitting news, moving onto politics and current affairs and finishes with sport. It seems to be an attempt to make the viewer aware of what the press have to go through to get the image. The foreword spends three pages talking about how the art of press photography is disappearing and that's why the book was created. The images are well presented, very good quality and h...

Photo Journalism is not a favourite area of photography for me, so I wouldn't normally be picking this one up in the book shop. As a reviewer though I can appreciate the quality for those of you who find this category interesting. It's up to RotoVision's usual high production values - excellent quality paper, superb repro and clean design. The text is small, so those with less than perfect eyesight may struggle on the finer captions. As is becoming typical from Terry Hope's books the thoroughne...

Hard back book with 96 pages and 69 duotone photographs offers a rich and multi-faceted portrait of the French capital over the last five decades. Paul, a Hungarian photographer and keen traveller, started his career as a journalist and has covered the world and settled in France in the 50s. His images capture the social conditions experienced by the rich and the poor of the country and in this book we see a collection of photographs spanning three decades. Its a real insight into the street lif...