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Individual Photographers & Professionals, Documentary Photography & Photojournalism

Sleeping with ghosts

by Mark Haworth-Booth
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Sleeping with Ghosts. Photographs and notes by Don McCullin. Introduction by Mark HaworthBooth. This book presents the life's work of one of the great photojournalists of our time, who raised the status of his craft to that of high art. McCullin has collected some two hundred of his best pictures. From India to Biafra, from Northern Ireland to Vietnam, his images reveal a compassionate contact between human beings in harsh environments. For U.S. distribution only. 183 blackandwhite duotone photographs, 11 3/4 X 10 3/4, pages.

"'Get closer' is the grim diktat of war photography, and the toll exacted by the work is often, in the end, more spiritual than physical. No one has gotten closer than Don McCullin. He has been photographing wars, mostly for London newspapers, for thirty years, and some of the bestknown images from and alarming number of farflung conflicts are his."

Peter Brown, Double Take

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Two hundred b&w photos by photojournalist McCullin are featured in an oversize format (12x11.5<">), with an introductory essay (by Mark Haworth-Booth, Victoria & Albert Museum, London) and some commentary by McCullin himself. He has been present at wars around the world<--> Cyprus, Israel, the Congo, Biafra, Vietnam, Pakistan, Cambodia, Beirut, Iraq<-->and has trained an unblinking gaze on battleground degradation as well as faces and landscapes encountered in his travels. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book Details

Published
April 1, 1996
Publisher
New York : Aperture, 1996.
Pages
208
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780893816599

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