|
Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic reportage
|
Buy Now
Iraq | Perspectives (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,135
Discovery Miles 11 350
You Save: R79
(7%)
|
|
|
Iraq | Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
Selected by William Eggleston as Winner The Center for Documentary
Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in PhotographyBenjamin Lowy's
powerful and arresting color photographs, taken over a six-year
period through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision
goggles, capture the desolation of a war-ravaged Iraq as well as
the tension and anxiety of both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians.
To photograph on the streets unprotected was impossible for Lowy,
so he made images that illuminate this difficulty by shooting
photographs through the windows and goggles meant to help him, and
soldiers, to see. In doing so he provides us with a new way of
looking at the war-an entirely different framework for regarding
and thinking about the everyday activities of Iraqis in a
devastated landscape and the movements of soldiers on patrol, as
well as the alarm and apprehension of nighttime raids. "Iraq was a
land of blast walls and barbed wire fences. I made my first image
of a concrete blast wall through the window of my armored car.
These pictures show a fragment of Iraqi daily life taken by a
transient passenger in a Humvee; yet they are a window to a world
where work, play, tension, grief, survival, and everything in
between are as familiar as the events of our own lives. . . . [In]
the 'Nightvision' images . . . as soldiers weave through the houses
and bedrooms of civilians during nighttime military raids, they
encounter the faces of their suspects as well as bystanders, many
of whom are parents protecting their children. . . . I hope that
these images provide the viewer with momentary illumination of the
fear and desperation that is war."-Benjamin Lowy
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
