Book Review: Great Life Photographers
Sep 19th, 2008 by jeremy
This is book thirty-eight in 52 books in 52 weeks
The photographers I love more than the rest usually belong to two magazines, National Geographic or Life. After reading the biography of a photographer, it sounds like photojournalists are the same way, they all wanted their work to be in National Geographic or Life magazine.
Great Life Photographers is a collection put together by the editors of Life, and includes a short biography and a collection of photos from every person that contributed photographs to Life magazine. It’s a little hard to review the book, the writing is straight facts about each person, and the photos are amazing. Human suffering, shots from around the globe, children, holidays, etc. There are photographs from everywhere and about everything. I’m sure you’d recognize many of them as soon as you open the book.
It’s very large, there are eight or more pictures for each person, it took me hours to finish even tough there’s a small amount of actual writing. I loved reading the stories of how a picture was created, what had happened right before or right after, and how the photographer managed to stay alive while taking the image. I’d highly recommend it to anyone that’s a fan of photography or the history of the art form.
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The rest of my 52 books are here
Other people reading 52 books
- Jaime reviews American Nerd by Benjamin Nugent
- Heliologue reviews Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
- Nick reviews the Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz.
It sounds like a book we should borrow or check out.
I’ll bring it over, I think dad would love it.