Things as they are

New York, N.Y. : Aperture Foundation/World Press Photo, 2005, 2005. Fine. 1st Aperture edition ; 1st printing ; 384 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm. ; blue boards with color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Preface: World Press Photo -- Introduction / Mary Panzer -- When magazines were big: 1955-1964 -- The Vietnam era: 1965-1974 -- Heroes and anti-heroes: 1975-1984 -- New world order: 1985-1994 -- Rise of the _x000D_ reporter-artist: 1995-2005 -- Afterword / Christian Caujolle. ; ISBN: 1597110140; 9781597110143 LCCN: 2005-931654 ; LC: TR820 ; Dewey: 770 ; OCLC: 66899278 ; presents the story of photojournalism over the past five decades, from 1955 until today. Published in collaboration with World Press Photo on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the book takes us from the golden era of the illustrated press--the heyday of "Life" magazine and "Picture Post, " and the moment of The Museum of Modern Art's defining "Family of Man" exhibition--to the twenty-first century's explosion of digital media. This history is told through the presentation of 125 photojournalistic features shot and published around the world...using landmark photo-essays from some of the greatest photographers in the world, including W. Eugene Smith, Sebastiao Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark, James Nachtwey, Annie Liebovitz, Nan Goldin and Henri Cartier-Bresson." ; Mary Panser is a curator and cultural historian. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, University of Kansas, and New York University, and was curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C., from 1992 to 2000; Christian Caujolle, born in France in 1953, is the director of the Paris based photo agency and gallery, VU. He worked as artistic director of photography festivals in Arles, Rotterdam, and Madrid ;