Description Conflict photographers are visual historians, bearing witness to stories that must be told.
About the Author Anthony Feinstein is a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Peabody win.
This ground-breaking book will stir interest in the essential work of the men and women who, armed with only a camera, venture into the world\'s most dangerous places.
A comprehensive index of photographer biographies and the wars and conflicts they have photographed is cited.
In addition to opening a new line of investigation into photographers and conflict, the book includes a definitive foreword by Sir Harold Evans, himself a world-renowned commentator on conflict and photography.
What emerges from these interviews and analyses is a different, unique appreciation of the world of the war and conflict photographer.
These may include grievous physical injury, PTSD, moral injury, and prolonged bereavement for colleagues lost.
The essays, derived from face-to-face interviews with the photojournalists, relatives, and close friends, give new and revealing insights into those factors, professional and psychological, that motivate photographers to enter zones of conflict repeatedly and the consequences that come from exposure to grave danger.
Complementing each essay is a single, iconic photograph around which the text is built.
What of the person taking the photograph? What might they have experienced? Neuropsychiatrist Anthony Feinstein provides the answers in a series of essays, one each for 18 of the world\'s preeminent conflict photographers.
What has become of these victims of war whose plight has been so memorably captured on camera? How did human behavior turn so dark? Shooting War builds on this narrative by asking a different set of questions that to date has received little, if any, attention.
The images they produce seize our attention and, moved by what we see, troubling questions come to mind.
Description Conflict photographers are visual historians, bearing witness to stories that must be told
