First published in 2001, this retrospective survey offers both an examination of Don Mc Cullin\'s photographic career as well as a record of half a century of international conflict.
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..
We now have a vast repository of images that make it harder to preserve such moral defectiveness.
I have long admired Don Mc Cullin\'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.
With texts by Mark Holborn, Harold Evans and Susan Sontag, and photographs taken by Mc Cullin 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.
Coinciding with the photographer\'s eightieth birthday, this expanded edition of Don Mc Cullin 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.
First published in 2001, this retrospective survey offers both an examination of Don Mc Cullin\'s photographic career as well as a record of half a century of international conflict
