Apartheid is a Crime (2nd Edition) - Portraits of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine (Hardcover)

Mats Svensson is a photographer who took 60,000 photos in the occupied Palestinian territories over several years and winnowed them down to the 92 perceptive, nuanced, and ultimately heart-rending images in this volume. Svenssons photos are accompanied by pithy and surprising commentary from a wide variety of Palestinian and Israeli figures as well as international voices from Barack Obama and George W Bush to Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Svensson documents Palestinian street scenes, conveying the mannerisms and customs of daily life, as did the humanist photographer Cartier Bresson. Svensson does not display the blood and gore of conflict, yet he shows its precursors and its aftermath in photos that, taken together, are as charged as the war photos of Robert Capa and David Douglas Duncan. Svensson shows us occupation, expropriation, arrest, and immense concrete barriers encroaching on daily life and asks us to come to our own conclusions. Americans will recognize this use of photos and words in the long tradition of politically committed photojournalists such as Walker Evans and James Agee who depicted the dispossessed of the earth in the American south at the depths of the Great Depression in their classic, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

General

Imprint:	Cune Press,US
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2020
Photographers:	Mats Svensson
Introduction by:	Ramzy Baroud
Dimensions:	177 x 177 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-1-951082-00-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-951082-00-1
Barcode:	9781951082000

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