Don Mcullin

Publisher Marketing: First published in 2001, this retrospective survey offers both an examination of Don McCullin's photographic career as well as a record of half a century of international conflict. Coinciding with the photographer's eightieth birthday, this expanded edition of "Don McCullin" serves as fitting homage to a photographer who dedicated his life to the front line in order to deliver compassionate visual testament to human suffering. With texts by Mark Holborn, Harold Evans and Susan Sontag, and photographs taken by McCullin in England, Cyprus, Vietnam, the Congo, Biafra, Northern Ireland, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Beirut, this is an essential volume on one of the legendary photographers of the 20th century."I have long admired Don McCullin's heroic journey through some of the most appalling zones of suffering in the last third of the 20th century," Sontag wrote in her essay. "We now have a vast repository of images that make it harder to preserve such moral defectiveness. Let the atrocious images haunt us Seeing reality in the form of an image cannot be more than an invitation to pay attention, to reflect, to learn, to examine the rationalizations for mass suffering offered by established powers."British photographer Don McCullin (born 1935) began his professional photographic career in 1959, and dedicated himself to photographing war, conflict, disease and poverty around the world, turning in his later years to landscape and still-life photography in his native England. Review Citations: Booklist 02/15/2002 pg. 980 (EAN 9780224061339, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 03/15/2002 pg. 76 (EAN 9780224061339, Hardcover) Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1760 (EAN 9780224061339, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Holborn, Mark Mark Holborn is an editor at Random House in London. Contributor Bio:  Evans, Harold Harold Evans is the author of two critically acclaimed best-selling histories of America: The American Century and They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators. This book was the basis for a four-part documentary of the same title on PBS, which he wrote. It is also being adapted into a college curriculum. He is editor at large of The Week magazine, and moderates The Week's panel discussions with political and economic leadersContributor Bio:  Sontag, Susan Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including "In America", which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories; several plays; and seven works of nonfiction. She died in New York City on December 28, 2004. Contributor Bio:  McCullin, Don Don McCullin worked for the "Sunday Times" for 18 years and covered every major conflict in his adult lifetime until the Falklands War, which the British government refused to grant him a press pass to cover, as his work was considered so powerful and evocative. Regarded by many as the finest British photojournalist of his generation, he has received many honors and awards including the CBE. His most recent books include "Don McCullin in Africa," "Unreasonable Behaviour," and his definitive monograph "Don McCullin."