By Hilton Kramer 8/16/04 12:00am

Why Cartier-Bresson, The Peintre Manqué, Became Photographer

I was glad to see that The New York Times featured its obituary of Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) on the front page. After all, no other photographer of his time lived and worked so long or commanded the admiration of so many artists, critics, editors, museum curators and connoisseurs of photography-not to mention the public at Read More

By Charles Kaiser 6/15/98 12:00am

The Best Shots in the World: The Life of the Magnum Agency

Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History , by Russell Miller. Grove Press, 336 pages, $26.

This wonderful history of a legendary photo agency should entertain almost everyone interested in photography or journalism-except for some of its prima donna subjects.

Russell Miller profiles Magnum-the glamorous, exceedingly ill-run photographers’ cooperative-from its birth Read More