By William Manchester, Fred Ritchin, and Jean Lacouture
Published in 1989 by the AFA in association with
W. W. Norton
456 pages, 461 illus. (61 color and 400 duotones),
10 × 14 in.
Paper • ISBN 0-393-02767-8 • $39.95 (W. W. Norton)

In Our Time includes more than three hundred memorable photographs, from the grandly historic to the poignantly human, from battlefield violence to the gentle pleasures of peace. As the distinguished historian William Manchester explains in his provocative text, the book is a distinctive blend of reporting and art that inevitably engages the heart and mind of the viewer. Each picture is a comment upon our experience of the twentieth century. The photographers represented all belong to Magnum, a collective founded in 1947 to give photojournalists artistic freedom and control over the rights to their work. Magnum's archives are a repository of masterpieces of photography. Not since the landmark photographic exhibition The Family of Man have so many brilliant photographs documented such a range of human experience.