Gamma: A story of photographers, a story of an agency, one of the best. An Éditions de la Martinère book (Gamma : Une histoire de photographes) is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It is astounding. The texts by Hubert Henrotte and Floris de Bonneville are sumptuous. Each week, L’Œil de la Photographie will publish some of the images from what was the golden era of photojournalism.
Founded in 1966, by photographers, for photographers, this new agency was to become a world leader within a few months. “Six new photographers, six new views of the world,” was Gamma’s slogan. From its creation, Gamma knew to develop and highlight photojournalism to be informative, to anticipate the news by bringing a personal view of the events. 300,000 black and white contacts and 200,000 color selections produced by 5,000 photographers were made over five decades. The real journalistic richness this publication possesses is its quintessence. It presents the work of those who really created, constructed, and developed the agency, a company often copied but never matched. All of Gamma’s major photos are in this book. Just like the major photographers who contributed to its history. Today, L’Œil de la Photographie is publishing a selection of Gilles Carron’s best photographs. Cartier Bresson said of him that he was the “French Robert Capa”.
Gamma, Une histoire de photographes
Published by La Martinière
59€
