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Title: Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer by Peter Howe ISBN: 1-57965-215-8 Publisher: Artisan Sales Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Talented Artists - Great Images - Awful Prose
Comment: The photographs in this book are ... well ... amazing. Most of the most famous war photographs are included in this collection, and you will seen some, if not all of them before. But, it's nice to have them all together. Most of the captioning alongside the images shows that the photograhers are self-centered, egotistical social misfits (like most great artists) with an incredible eye for light and composition.
Rating: 3
Summary: 3 stars for the photos, none for the ideology
Comment: "it's the journalists' write-ups beside the photos that I found intriguing"
Me, too. When one of the photographers expressed his admiration for the Viet Cong - who were at the time conducting mass extra-judicial executions during the occupation of Hue during the Tet Offensive - I was...intrigued.
The write-ups indeed cast a not-so-flattering light on the subtle way that photographers "in the trenches" can be deluded into supporting the murderous "militants" that use them for their propaganda.
Rating: 5
Summary: Startling insights
Comment: It's not the photos in this book that captured me -- yes they're astounding, but I've seen many of them before -- it's the journalists' write-ups beside the photos that I found intriguing. I never realized before the angst that haunts war photographers, the guilt that plagues them when they file their photos and stories with their editors. They make money on other people's suffering, yet their photos often help the people who suffer by informing the world of what's going on. But for the most part they can't help the one person they've captured so brilliantly in one frozen moment in time, and because of that many can't sleep at night. They make the world a better, safer place, and pay for it with damaged psyches.
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Title:War Photographer ASIN: B0000C825I Publisher: First Run Features Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $25.49 |
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Title: The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Desmond Mpilo Tutu ISBN: 0465044131 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Larry Burrows: Vietnam by David Halberstam, Larry Burrows ISBN: 037541102X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Truth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism by Howard Chapnick ISBN: 0826209556 Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers by Ken Light, Kerry Tremain ISBN: 1560989483 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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