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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir "It's What I Do "is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It's her work, but it's much more than that: it's her singular calling. Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young...
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Shooting Under Fire is the candid testimony and stunning photography of the men and women who go into battle armed only with a camera to show warfare as it is and where it is. On September 11, 2001, America and the world learned in a devastating attack that warfare can just as easily occur on a beautiful day in the middle of one of the world's greatest cities as in a desert thousands of miles away. The world was made aware of this because photographers...
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Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
This is the first book of colorized photographs that depicts not only portraits of the leaders and soldiers from the Union and the Confederacy, but real vignettes from American life during the war: soldiers in the field, scenes from urban and plantation life, slaves and freedmen, destroyed cities, contested battlefields, a range of weaponry, and much more. The book includes more than 200 photographs, from the Library of Congress extensive archives,...
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"In this book the full range of Eddie Adams's work in Indochina is revealed, and through never-before-seen pictures, articles written for publication by Adams, pages from his personal journals and other artifacts, one journalist's experience of the war in Vietnam is told in gripping detail."--BOOK JACKET.
14) Of love & war
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author, a stunning and personally curated selection of her work across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa Lynsey Addario has captured audiences with her disarming and compelling photographs and her uncanny ability to personalize even the most remote corners of our world. Here, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist returns with a stunning collection of more than...