Black Star: Sixty Years of Photojournalism: 60 Years of Photojournalism

by Hendrik Neubauer

Black Star's catalogue of photos reflects the diversty of themes found in the history of photojournalism: from the International Brigade of the Spanish civil war to the misery of Rwandan refugees in a Zairean camp; from the Stone Age tribes living in the Philippine rain forest to the criminal gangs in the jungle of Los Angeles. Black Star's immortal photographs rage from a tramp sleeping on a Parisian shop window ledge to the back rooms of the Bank of England. No journey was too long or too arduous, no situation too dangerous.

Genres: Photography

460 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1997

Reviews

[Brian Page]

BLACK STAR: 60 YEARS OF PHOTOJOURNALISM is the definitive photographic history of the agency. It is a large volume with over 400 pages of amazing, dramatic, and poignant photographs. The text is trilingual and a bit stilted. But I’m not sure that I’d have sacrificed image space for better captions. Especially nice are the short biographies for each Black Star photographer, found at the end of the book. Aside from being a history of Black Star it is also, of course, a look back at much of the 20th century. Black Star photographers covered virtually all news and personalities of interest; so it’s both a world history and a memoir of perhaps the most influential photo agency of the last century.