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Summary: 3 stars for the photos, none for the ideology
Review: "it's the journalists' write-ups beside the photos that I found intriguing"Me, too. When one of the photographers expressed his admiration for the Viet Cong - who were at the time conducting mass extra-judicial executions during the occupation of Hue during the Tet Offensive - I was...intrigued. The write-ups indeed cast a not-so-flattering light on the subtle way that photographers "in the trenches" can be deluded into supporting the murderous "militants" that use them for their propaganda.
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Summary: 3 stars for the photos, none for the ideology
Review: "it's the journalists' write-ups beside the photos that I found intriguing" Me, too. When one of the photographers expressed his admiration for the Viet Cong - who were at the time conducting mass extra-judicial executions during the occupation of Hue during the Tet Offensive - I was...intrigued. The write-ups indeed cast a not-so-flattering light on the subtle way that photographers "in the trenches" can be deluded into supporting the murderous "militants" that use them for their propaganda.
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Summary: Shooting Under Fire : The World of the War Photographer
Review: An award-winning photojournalist and former pictures editor for the New York Times Magazine and other publications, Howe here gathers the work of ten widely regarded combat photographers whose work documents such places as Vietnam, El Salvador, Sarajevo, Beirut, and Belfast. Howe's introduction gives a general overview of combat photography and the resulting famous images from all of war photojournalism. The following ten chapters are each dedicated to one photographer. The photographers describe the why and how of their experiences in their own words and with a selection of mostly full-page images. Their candor, as much as their images, makes this book important. Their work witnesses the death and destruction of combat, but it also conveys the empathy, the fear, and the photographer's drive to get the picture. Are they using their cameras to invade the most private moments imaginable, or are they informing the world? The photographers address this and other questions, revealing the human side of this dangerous occupation. By including images from the World Trade Center on 9/11, Howe extends the reach of his book to include a new understanding of war for Americans. Highly recommended for all photography collections
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Summary: A moving, insightful tribute
Review: I found Shooting Under Fire to be a critical, thought provoking piece of work. Peter Howe, through a series of interviews, helps to shed light on the all to horrific world of war photography form both sides of the cameras lens. A bookshelf essential for war history buffs.
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Summary: Shooting Under Fire. The World of the War Photographer
Review: I found Shooting Under Fire to be a critical, thought provoking piece of work. Peter Howe, through a series of interviews, helps to shed light on the all to horrific world of war photography form both sides of the cameras lens. A bookshelf essential for war history buffs.
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Summary: Startling insights
Review: It's not the photos in this book that captured me -- yes they're astounding, but I've seen many of them before -- it's the journalists' write-ups beside the photos that I found intriguing. I never realized before the angst that haunts war photographers, the guilt that plagues them when they file their photos and stories with their editors. They make money on other people's suffering, yet their photos often help the people who suffer by informing the world of what's going on. But for the most part they can't help the one person they've captured so brilliantly in one frozen moment in time, and because of that many can't sleep at night. They make the world a better, safer place, and pay for it with damaged psyches.
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Summary: Get behind the scenes of the War Photographer
Review: Once I picked up this book I could not put it down. Peter Howe has engaged ten of the most articulate and talented war photographers. Each photographer gives compassionate details about their lives, the pictures they have taken, and the effects of war on themselves and the world. To truly understand why the world needs these photographers and why these photographers do what they do, then you must buy this book!
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Summary: A moving, insightful tribute
Review: Peter Howe has assembled a powerful, moving collection of war photographs combined with the recollections of the photographers who made the pictures. At a time when we are on the verge of entering a conflict much like the conflicts covered by these photographers, "Shooting Under Fire" stands as a startling reminder of the grim, merciless and all-too-human realities of war.
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Summary: The Art of War
Review: Peter Howe has carefully crafted a stunning book. He combines the images of 10 renowned combat photographers with a stark, spare, and candid narrative, as each describes their work.
The book succeeds at many levels. Idealism, adrenaline and ambition are sometimes countered by regret. The photographers are complex and complicated. Some have been wounded -one deliberately by an Israeli soldier, it's alleged- all are battle hardened, streetwise and changed. The reality of war; blood in the snow; dying men; chilling bravado; starving children; crumbled buildings; is on every page. We know what war is like because the photographers are there for us.
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Summary: The second-best present I was ever given
Review: Shooting Under Fire is an amazing collection of photographs from 10 living combat correspondants (except for one who died while photographing the 9/11 attacks). The color images are stunning in their graphic portrayal of the horrors of war, and the black and white images are intense and gritty in their truth. As a photographer and a Peace Studies major (recently graduated), there was really *nothing* about this book that I didn't love! For the record, the best present I was ever given was a charcoal drawing of one of the photos in this book, created by the same person who gave me the book as a gift!
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