Photo Essay:A collection of pictures on a single theme, arranged
to convey a mood, deliver information, tell a story, in a way
that one picture alone cannot. Selection and arrangement are
all-important. A successful photo essay is always greater than
the sum of its parts. It has a life of its own. It says more,
has a greater impact than any single picture in it.
Great Photographic Essays from Life,
commentary by Maitland Edey. Little, Brown and Company. 1978.
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The Magnum
Photosweb site has thousands of photographs from their
photographers. You can spend hours, even days, here and not
see it all. The site is designed to sell photos but there is
still plently to see and study. You could learn much just by
viewing great photography.
One such photographer worth studing is
Robert
Capa. The most recent book of his work is on view here.
There is also a features
section. Here you can view and study the latest work of
the Magnum photographers.
Tom
Stoddart: iWITNESS: So
many pictures, so much suffering … but also such determination
to never give in to the comforts of a "civilized"
world when there is still the chance to comment on the intolerable,
irreparable and unspeakable. This book is featured at DigitialJournalist
September 2004.
Agent
Orange: "Collateral Damage" in Viet Nam: by
Philip Jones Griffiths. I can absolutly guarantee you
that you have never REALLY seen what Agent Orange
(Dioxon) has done to Vietnam. Now you can. You can also help
the victims of Dioxon. DigitalJournalist
features Mr. Griffiths book in the January 2004 issue. Remember
Mr Griffiths was asked to leave Vietnam after he published Vietnam
Inc. But he did go back and for many years photographed
the devastation caused by Agent Orange. Another place to view
the photos from this book
is at Magnum Photos. It just shows the photos and some are
really to difficult to view. It's not a pretty picture.
New
York September 11 by Magnum
Photographers. From Publishers Weekly. In the recent
wave of books related to the tragedy of September 11 Taliban
histories, introductions to Islam, volumes of pictures and commemorative
poems New York September 11, by the famed Magnum Photos collective,
stands out as haunting tribute to the city, to the emergency
workers, to the dead,... Go
to the Magnum Photos web site to view the photos from this
book.
Womenby Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag.
Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie
Leibovitz for her book Women stands on its own. Looked at together,
these "photographs of people with nothing more in common
than that they are women (and living in America at the end of
the twentieth century.)
Sarajevo
Self-Portrait: The View From Inside by Leslie Fratkin,
Tom Gjelten. Nine Bosnian photographers present 130 color
and b&w photographs of their ravaged homeland, accompanied
by statements about the process of documenting the war.
Explore
Photography | A site for beginners and those who think
they know it all.
with
these hands | The farm story and the families that work
them.
Speak
Truth To Power | Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing
Our World. Introduction and Interviews by Kerry Kennedy
Cuomo. Photographs by Eddie Adams. Edited by
Nan Richardson. Washington Post.
Light
Box | Another way to view photographs. Washington Post.
Tom
Stoddart: iWITNESS
New
York September 11
Sarajevo
Self-Portrait: The View From Inside
