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Martin Munkácsi

Martin Munkácsi (1896–1963) began working as a photojournalist in Hungary and already established a name for himself while still in his twenties, with sports action shots a specialty. He then moved to Germany where his dazzling and innovative photo essays for the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung garnered him further renown. With the rise of Hitler Munkácsi emigrated to the United States, and there during the thirties he revolutionized the style of fashion photography, working for Harper's Bazaar under Carmel Snow and Alexei Brodovitch. His combination of spontaneity and joie de vivre with formal richness earned him eulogies from the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Richard Avedon.

Munkácsi, Martin.
Text by John Rawlings.
Nudes.
New York: Greenberg, 1951.

Munkácsi, Martin.
Munkácsi: Spontaneity and Style.
New York: International Center of Photography, 1978.

White, Nancy and John Esten.
Style in Motion: Munkácsi Photographs of the '20s, '30s, and '40s.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1979.

Munkácsi, Martin.
Text by Otto Heuer.
Martin Munkácsi.
Bielefeld, Düsseldorf: Edition Marzona, 1980.

Munkácsi, Martin.
Biographical profile by Susan Morgan.
Martin Munkácsi.
New York: Aperture, 1992.

Honnef, Klaus, and Enno Kaufhold.
Edited by F. C. Gundlach.
Foreword by Richard Avedon.
Martin Munkácsi.
Göttingen: Steidl, 2006.