Product Details
Hardcover
416 pages
de.MO
Published 2004
Dallas Morning News, Michael Mulvey
A deep and heavy volume of photos and essays ... will grip and challenge viewers with every page.
TIME Magazine, Pat Barker
Great photographs do not answer our questions. They show us why the questions must be asked .....
Book Description
War reveals the true story of what our country has faced since that fateful Tuesday in 2001. Featuring 223 photographs, insightful vignettes and three thought-provoking major essays, War is a powerful collaborative effort from VII, a cutting-edge photo agency cooperatively owned by nine elite photojournalists. The three full-length essays, written by eminent journalists Peter Maass, Remy Ourdan and David Rieff, discuss the three major crises of the twenty-first century from a social, political and militaristic standpoint and further illuminate the powerful photographic images in War. The photographers of VII-Christopher Anderson, Alexandra Boulat, Lauren Greenfield, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer-are used to witnessing, up close and in person, events of international turmoil. That is the duty of a photojournalist-to bear witness and to document history-and few would dispute that these photojournalists are the world's very best.
In addition to documenting the experience of 9/11, War takes an incisive look at the images from Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, as well as the airstrikes and US occupation of Iraq. In War, the photographers of VII have created a shockingly intimate portrait of US foreign policy and the most critical moments of American history in the beginning of the twenty-first century. What you see here will stun you.
War has received the Picture of the Year Best Photography Book, the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers Selected Book, the Photo District News Best Book Selection and the Independent Publisher Awards Best Current Events.
About the Author
Christopher Anderson contract photographer for the US News & World Report, dedicated to photographing social issues. Alexandra Boulat photojournalist focusing mainly on social issues, works regularly for National Geographic, Paris-Match and Time. Lauren Greenfield photojournalist. One of American Photo Magazines’s 100 most influential people in photography. Ron Haviv contract photographer for Newsweek, has confronted risk in order to bring attention to our less fortunate neighbors. Gary Knight contract photographer for Newsweek, concerned primarily with human rights and issues of crime and justice. Antonin Kratochvil photojournalist, produced work that has appeared in magazines and other publications worldwide. Christopher Morris contract photographer for Time magazine, roams the globe to document violent social eruptions and armed conflicts. James Nachtwey contract photographer for Time magazine, has devoted his life to documenting wars, conflicts, and critical social issues. John Stanmeyer contract photographer for Time magazine, documents the human condition. Peter Maass contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. Author or "Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War," a memoir of covering the conflict in the Balkans. Rèmy Ourdan is a war correspondent for the french newspaper Le Monde. David Rieff author covering wars and humanitarian emergencies in many part of the world. |
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