Contact Press Images is an international photojournalism

Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism...

 agency founded in 1976 in New York City by French-British journalist and editor Robert Pledge and American photojournalist David Burnett, and focused on independent production on photo journalism. Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer.-Early life and education:Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants, from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's...

 joined Contact Press in 1967.

In addition to producing monographs and exhibitions, some of Contact's photographers have been awarded prizes in photojournalism, including honors from the World Press Photo

World Press Photo

World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955 the organization is known for holding the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest....

, National Press Photographers Association

National Press Photographers Association

NPPA is the acronym for the National Press Photographers Association, founded in 1947. The organization is based in Durham, North Carolina and its mostly made up of still photographers, television videographers, editors, and students in the journalism field...

, and Overseas Press Club

Overseas Press Club

The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member...

 organizations.

Books by Contact Press Images

• "Kalachnikov: L'AK47 à la conquete du monde", by Contact Press Images, Stanislas De Haldat, Based on Photos by Contact Photojournalist J.B. Diederich, The first Westerner to visit Kalachnikov at home in Illevsk, Editions La Sirene (1993).
• "Le cercle des intimes: François Mitterrand par ses proches", by Caroline Lang, Robert Pledge, Michel Baverey, Editions La Sirene (1995), ISBN 2840451336
• "Eleven: Witnessing the World Trade Center, 1974 - 2001", by Contact Press Images, Robert Pledge (editor), Universe Publishing (September 2002), ISBN 0789308304
• "Pope John Paul II: His Remarkable Journey", by Contact Press Images, Robert Pledge (editor), de.MO ( July 2005), ISBN 0974283630

Selected monographs by Contact Press Images Photographers

• "Too Much Time: Women in Prison", by Jane Evelyn Atwood
  Jane Evelyn Atwood
  Jane Evelyn Atwood is an American photographer living in Paris since 1971.Jane Evelyn Atwood defines herself more as a photographer of projects rather than a photojournalist. Her photographic projects can take several years in order to go deep into the topic. Her photography study of women in...
  
  , Phaidon Press (March 2000), ISBN 0714839736
• "Do or Die", by Martine Barrat, Viking Adult (October 1993), ISBN 0670843253
• "The British", by Nick Danziger, Harper Collins UK (June 2002), ISBN 0002571609
• "Fight", by Stephen Dupont, Edition Braus (December 2003), ISBN 3899040619
• "Des Hommes", by Giorgia Fiorio, Marval (2003), ISBN 2862343412
• "Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict", by Lori Grinker, de.MO (April 2005), ISBN 0970576870
• "Tango: Never Before Midnight", by Adriana Groisman, Editions Lariviere (2004), ISBN 978-987-9395-20-2
• "Just Another War", by Kenneth Jarecke
  Kenneth Jarecke
  Kenneth Jarecke is a photojournalist. He has covered a number of events but is notable for taking the famous incinerated Iraqi soldier that was published in the London Observer, March 10, 1991.-Bio:...
  
  , Exene Cervenka, Zezene Cervenka, Bedrock Press (September 1995), ISBN 0963478419
• "A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005", by Annie Leibovitz
  Annie Leibovitz
  Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer.-Early life and education:Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants, from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's...
  
  , Random House (October 2003), ISBN 0375505091
• "Red-Color News Soldier", by Li Zhensheng, Phaidon Press (October 2003), ISBN 0714843083
• "Don McCullin in Africa", by Don McCullin
  Don McCullin
  Donald McCullin, FRPS CBE is an internationally known British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife...
  
  , Random House UK (September 2005), ISBN 0224075144
• "Sebastiao Salgado: Migrations", by Sebastiao Salgado
  Sebastião Salgado
  Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.-Biography:Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in...
  
  , Aperture (June 2005), ISBN 0893818917
• "Elvis at 21: New York to Memphis", by Alfred Wertheimer, Insight Editions (October 2006), ISBN 1933784016
• "Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World", text and photos by Alexandra Avakian, National Geographic Books (October 2008)

See also

• Article on Contact Press Images from The Digital Journalist