This special and important photography book presents, for the first time, the very best contact sheets created by Magnum photographers. Contact sheets tell the truth behind a photograph. They unveil its process, and provide its back story. Was it the outcome of what a photographer had in mind from the outset? Did it emerge from a diligently worked sequence, or was the right shot down to pure serendipity - a matter of being in the right place at the right time? This landmark publication provides the reader with a depth of understanding and a critical analysis of the story behind a photograph, the process of editing it, and the places and ways in which the selected photographs were used. For anyone with a deep appreciation of photography and a desire to understand what goes into creating iconic work, Magnum Contact Sheets will be regarded as the definitive volume

• Henri Cartier-Bresson: Seville
• Chim (David Seymour): Womand in the crowd
• Herbert List: Man and dog
• Robert Capa: the battle of Rio Segre
• Werner Bischof: Mountains
• George Rodger: the blitz
• George Roder: Western desert
• Robert Capa: D-day
• Robert Capa: leipzig
• Herbert List: Plaster casts at the academy
• Chim (David Seymour): Girls sewing
• Philippe Halsman: Dali atomicua
• Werner Bischof: Courtyard of the meiji temple
• Elliott erwitt: Mother and child
• Marc Riboud: Eiffel tower painter
• Cornell Capa: Fall of peron
• Erich Lessing: Budapest
• Burt Glinn: Little rock, Arkansas
• Inge Morath: a Llama in Times Square
• Eve Arnold: Joan Crawford
• Elliott Erwitt: Kitchen debate
• Burt Glinn: Fidel castro
• Marilyn Silverstone: the Dalai Lama
• Rene Burri: Ministry of Health
• Inge Morath: Refugee camps
• Eve Arnold: Malcolm X
• Cornell Capa: the White House
• Bruce Davidson: Civil rights movement
• Philip Jones Griffiths: Boy destroying piano
• Constantine Manos: Women at Graveside
• Rene Burri: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
• Leonard Freed: Martin Luther King
• David Hurn: the Beatles
• David Hurn: Jean Straker
• Thomad Hoepker: Muhammad Ali
• Philip Jones Griffiths: Civilian Victim, Vietnam
• Bruno Barbey: Paris Riots
• paul Fusco: Robert Kennedy Funeral Train
• Josef Koudelka: Prague invasion
• Dennis Stock: California rock concert
• Dennis Stock: Playa del Rey
• Richard Kalvar
• Guy le Querrec: Miles Davis

• Patrick Zachmann: Police violence
• Carl de Keyzer: Good Friday Parade
• Carl de Keyzer: Ku Klux Klan
• Nikos Economopoulos: Central railway station
• Larry Towell: Young guerrillas
• Jean Gaumy: Tuna fishing
• Mark Power: the shipping forecast
• Larry Towell: Kids with toy guns
• Cristina Garcia Rodero: Maternity ward
• Eli Reed: Rwandan refugees
• Martine Franck: Buddhist monks
• Larry Towell: Mennonites
• Chris Steele-Perkins: Mental home
• Chien-Chi Chang: the chain
• Bruce Gilden: Yakuza
• Trent parke: Aummer rain
• Alessandra Sanguinetti: the necklace
• Chris Steele-Perkins: Mount Fuji
• Christopher Anderson: Haitian immigrants
• Jacob Aue Sobol: Sabine
• Bruno Barbey: Morocco
• Jonas Bendiksen: Satellites
• Thomas Sworzak: Chechen fighters
• Elliott Erwitt: Bulldogs
• Trent Parke: the seventh wave
• Paolo Pellegrin: Serb funeral
• Christopher Anderson: the battle for Kunduz
• David Alan Harvey: Carnival
• Thomas Hoepker: 9/11
• Cristina Garcia Rodero: Saut d'Eau
• Paolo Pellegrin: West Bank
• Alec Soth: Mother and daughter
• Donovan Wylie: Maze prison
• Paolo Pellegrin: Palestine wall
• Trent Parke: Super possum
• Abbas: American Gls in Patrol
• Mark Power: the sound of two songs
• Antoine D'agata: Mexico
• Mikhael Subotzky: Beaufort west
• Chien-Chi Chang: Travelogue
• Jim Goldberg: Proof

• Raghu Rai: Mother Teresa
• Gilles peress: Bloody Sunday
• Ferdinando Scianna: Dog on the Ghat
• Guy Le Querrec: Artichoke Harvest
• Susan Meiselas: Carnival strippers
• Ian Berry: the English
• Micha Bar-am: the return from entebbe
• Martine Franck: Le Brusc
• Chris Steele-Perkins: the Teds
• Jim Goldberg: TJ
• Raymond Depardon: Chad
• Leonard Freed: Police work
• Hiroji Kubota: the golden rock
• George Rodger: Circumcision ceremony
• Alex Webb: Boystown
• Abbas: Armed militants outside the US Embassy
• Susan Meiselas: Sandinista
• Richard Kalvar: Piazza della Rotonda
• Peter Marlow: Margaret Thatcher
• Peter Marlow: Northern Ireland
• Martin Parr: Bad weather
• Steve Mccurry: Dust storm
• Bruce Gilden: San Gennaro Street Festival
• Ian Berry: Apartheid funeral
• Martin Parr: Last resort
• John Vink: Filling Guerbas with water
• Stuart Franklin: Moss side estate
• Jean Gaumy: Shooting practice
• Marc Riboud: Klaus Barbie's trial
• Ferdinando Scianna: Marpessa
• Patrick Zachmann: the 'Walled City'
• Raymond Depardon: the wall
• Stuart Franklin: Tiananmen square
• Jim Goldberg: Signing off
• Josef Koudelka: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
• Gueorgui Pinkhassov: Earthquake in Armenia