Of love & war
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author, a stunning and personally curated selection of her work across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa Lynsey Addario has captured audiences with her disarming and compelling photographs and her uncanny abil...
| Format: | Books Print Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2018.
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| Summary: |
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author, a stunning and personally curated selection of her work across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa Lynsey Addario has captured audiences with her disarming and compelling photographs and her uncanny ability to personalize even the most remote corners of our world. Here, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist returns with a stunning collection of more than two hundred of her photographs from across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. In her distinctively powerful dramatic style, Addario documents life in Afghanistan under the Taliban, the stark truth of sub-Saharan Africa, and the daily reality of women in the Middle East, as well as much more. Featuring revelatory essays from esteemed writers, such as Dexter Filkins and Suzy Hansen, and public figures, like Christy Turlington, Of Love & War is an utterly compelling and singular statement about the world, and all its inescapable chaos and conflict, from one of the most brilliant and influential journalists working today in any medium"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780525560029 0525560025 |
| Author Notes: |
Lynsey Addario was born on November 13, 1973 in Norwalk, Connecticut. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995. She began photographing professionally in 1996 at at the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina, and then began freelancing for the Associated Press, with Cuba as a focus. In 2000, she photographed in Afghanistan under Taliban control. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, the Congo, and Haiti. She has photographed for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic. In 2015 her title It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) |