Publication date: 2006-06-01
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.07
Review Wildlife Photography (Lonely Planet How to) / Lonely Planet Publications:
Creator: Sebastiao Salgado
Edition: Mul
Publication date: 2007-10
Dewey code: 960.0222
RRP: £39.99
Price: £26.91
Review Africa: Eye on Africa - Thirty Years of Africa Images, Selected by Salgado Himself / Taschen GmbH:
Authors
- Alan Henry
- Quentin Spurring
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £30.00
Price: £16.86
Review Ronnie Peterson: A Photographic Portrait / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-09-01
Dewey code: 770
RRP: £12.50
Price: £6.50
Review The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers / Aperture:
Publication date: 2006-10-09
RRP: £24.95
Price: £6.13
Review Elephant! / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-06-06
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.83
Review Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography / Vintage:
Publication date: 2008-01-01
Dewey code: 746.92
RRP: £24.95
Price: £20.45
Review Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys / Earthscan Publications Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-05-16
RRP: £5.74
Price: £5.62
Review Scotland Panorama Calendar 2009 / Colin Baxter Photography Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 771.33
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.99
Review Nikon D300 (Magic Lantern Guides) (Magic Lantern Guides) / Lark Magic Lantern Guides®: Nikon D300:
Publication date: 2007-08-06
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.37
Review Collins Digital SLR Handbook / Collins:
Publication date: 2002-12-05
Dewey code: 770
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.97
Review On Photography (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-28
Dewey code: 775
RRP: £20.50
Price: £11.94
Review Practical HDRI: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers / Rocky Nook:
Publication date: 2008-09-08
Dewey code: 746
RRP: £18.99
Price: £10.13
Review Digital Fashion Illustration / Batsford:
Authors
- Greg Marinovich
- Joao Silva
Publication date: 2001-09-06
Dewey code: 323
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.65
Review The Bang-bang Club: The Making of the New South Africa / Arrow Books Ltd:Ask any foreign editor on a national paper what part of the job gives them the most grief, and you'll almost certainly be told, "the foreign correspondents". Almost without exception, the reporters who bring back the best stories from war zones are neurotic, dysfunctional, paranoid and almost impossible to deal with. And if The Bang-Bang Club is anything to go by, you can include war photographers in the same category. The Bang-Bang Club was the name given to four South African photo-journalists, Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Ken Oosterbroek and Kevin Carter, who made a name for themselves going into the townships to capture first-hand the violence that erupted in South Africa between ANC supporters and the predominantly Zulu Inkhata party after the release of Nelson Mandela and prior to the first democratic elections. As a guide to the different factions and as a record of brutality, the book cannot be faulted. The British media predictably only ever reported the more sensational atrocities, and The Bang-Bang Club is a potent reminder of the ever-present violence and hatred that have dominated South African life since the early 1990s. Where the authors are on shakier ground is in the analysis of their own condition. Marinovich writes of the "addiction to adrenaline" in his pursuit of the story, and we do get to hear the downside of the booze, drugs and failed relationships that were a by-product of this addiction. But though Marinovich admits to questioning his motivation in getting up close and personal to the violence, he rather lets himself and the others off the hook with the notion that everything is justified by the importance of the story. This is as maybe, but another interesting line of enquiry might have been to ask whether the photographers' sublimated their own violent urges through their work. [+]In other words, they let the death squads act out their feelings, while still retaining a moral high ground. The Bang-Bang Club exacted a high price of membership; Oosterbroek was killed by a stray bullet, Carter committed suicide and Marinovich was badly wounded and it's certainly not a club I would have been keen to join myself. But whatever you might think of the authors' psychiatric condition, you have to give them credit for exposing the stories that other journalists refused to touch. As The Bang-Bang Club might have said, "It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. " -John Crace.
Creator: Patrick Kinmonth
Publication date: 2002-01-25
RRP: £40.00
Price: £34.21
Review Mario Testino: Portraits / National Portrait Gallery Publications:
Creator: Anthony Roberts
Publication date: 2007-04
Dewey code: 778.35
RRP: £19.51
Price: £17.37
Review The New Earth from Above: 365 Days / HNA Books:
Publication date: 2008-11-15
Dewey code: 778.324
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.52
Review Macro Photography for Gardeners and Nature Lovers: The Essential Guide to Digital Techniques / Timber Press:
Authors
- Ph.D., photography by Elan Penn Rebeccah Welch
Dewey code: 917.4710444
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.84
Review New York: A Pictorial Celebration / Sterling:
Authors
- Mia Kirshner
- J. B. MacKinnon
- Paul Shoebridges
Dewey code: 305.906914
RRP: £19.51
Price: £14.01
Review I Live Here / Pantheon Books:
Authors
- Philip Hoffhines
- Peter Matthews
Publication date: 2008-08-05
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.52
Review 365 Days in Britain Calendar 2009 (Picture a Day Wall Calendars) (Picture-A-Day Wall Calendars) / Workman Publishing:
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