Globalization, Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
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Overview
A new world is emerging from the accelerating phenomenon that we call globalization. It's a world in which people, merchandise, finance, technology, knowledge, and illicit goods circulate freely, and the interdependence of cultures, economies, and individuals has increased beyond all imagining.While globalization connects people and places that are geographically remote, it also fragments local connections and ties. To reveal the constructive as well as the destructive power of globalization, ten very different and distinguished photographers have been commissioned to produce photo-stories from different continents. Akinbode Akinbiyi looks at religion in Brazil and Nigeria, and their mutual influence. Thomas Kern traveled from Detroit to the Mexican border, examining the idea of American identity post-9/11. Ziyo Gafic gives an insider's evocation of the aftermath of war in a Bosnian community. Some of Philip Jones Griffiths's famous photographs from Vietnam Inc of thirty years ago appear beside his new shots of a country moving towards liberalization. Shehzad Noorani examines tourism, migration, and the effect of regional poverty on the lives of children in India and Nepal. Cristina Nuñez focuses on Italy and the transnational elite, backroom workers, and street traders in the world of fashion. Tim Hetherington celebrates the way sports have rehabilitated the young after the conflicts in Angola, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Bertien van Manen photographs the souvenirs of immigrants living in bleak apartments on the fringes of Paris, and Stephan Vanfleteren shows social exclusion in the First World with portraits of lonely people in Belgium. Andreas Seibert explores urbanization in the twenty-first century in his study of migrant workers building a global city on the Pearl River Delta in China. 250 illustrations, 120 in color.Author Biography: Daniel Schwartz's books include the acclaimed The Great Wall of China. He is curating an international exhibition on the process of globalization, for which this is the companion book. It opens in Geneva in December 2003 and then will travel.
Editorials
Library Journal
Photographer and editor Schwartz (The Great Wall of China) commissioned ten photographers to complete ten extremely different documentary "photo-stories" for this collective project. Each piece poignantly illustrates the abstract concept of globalization and its implications worldwide. Uniting these different photographic "tales," this book (a companion to the exhibition commissioned by the Swiss government) also includes each photojournalist's two-page essay, with detailed captions to accompany the 227 color and black-and-white images. Subjects include migrant workers in China's Pearl River Delta, former child soldiers playing football in Liberia, and portraits of loneliness in Belgium. The ten contributing photographers worked in five different countries and dealt with a set of complex issues, from the postwar quest for identity in Bosnia to post-9/11 immigration to the United States. The impact of globalization has been given much scrutiny in recent years, but this compilation is perhaps the most intelligent and compelling look so far at our rapidly changing world. The photographers accomplish the task of first-rate photojournalism: they enhance our awareness of complicated social issues. Highly recommended for all collections. [After touring Switzerland, the exhibition will travel abroad, with locations to be announced.-Ed.]-Shauna Frischkorn, Millersville Univ., PA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.Book Details
Published
November 3, 2003
Publisher
London ; Thames & Hudson, 2003.
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780500284322