The camera, René Burri said, was his third eye: he kept it with him at all times, even when he went to sleep. A mainstay of Magnum Photos, he took some of the most arresting portraits of Che Guevara and Pablo Picasso.
see also The Guardian Obituary
Marked Up Photographs Show How Iconic Prints Were Edited in the Darkroom
Pablo Inirio, the master darkroom printer who works at Magnum Photos‘ New York headquarters, has personally worked on some of the cooperative’s best-known images. A number of his marked-up darkroom prints have appeared online, revealing the enormous amount of attention Inirio gives photos in the darkroom.
For more fascinating examples of darkroom markup follow the link, and also read the original piece by Sarah Coleman on her bi-weekly blok the literate lens that this PetaPixel post is based upon…
via Marked Up Photographs Show How Iconic Prints Were Edited in the Darkroom.
Wayne Miller obituary – Guardian
The American photographer Wayne Miller, who has died aged 94, once said his mission was “to photograph mankind and explain man to man”. To this end, he created memorable images of American soldiers in combat during the second world war, the devastation of Hiroshima just after the detonation of the atom bomb, and the black community in the south side of Chicago in the 1940s.
Miller was also a key figure in establishing photojournalism as an important medium, co-curating the monumental Family of Man exhibition with the photographer Edward Steichen in 1955. With subjects grouped thematically under headings such as love, death and children, the show included 503 images taken by 273 photographers across the world. After opening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it toured for eight years, drawing huge crowds. Meanwhile, Miller served as president of both the American Society of Magazine Photographers and of Magnum Photos, from 1962 until 1968.