PHOTOJOURNALISTS ON WAR AT 25TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PHOTOJOURNALISM

KAMBER'S ACCLAIMED BOOK ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR TO BE FEATURED AT 25TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PHOTOJOURNALISM

VISA POUR L'IMAGE, PERPIGNAN, SEPTEMBER 5 AND 6, 2013

A multi-media piece on Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq

(University of Texas Press) by Michael Kamber with a foreword by Dexter Filkins will be projected during the evening screening tonight, Thursday, September 5, at this year's international photojournalism festival at Perpignan in France. On Friday, September 6 at 16:00 hours, there will be a book signing with Michael Kamber and some of the photographers featured in the book in the courtyard of Le Poudrière near the Festival's bookshop, The Chapitre, where the book can be bought.

Photojournalists on War (University of Texas Press), which published in May of 2013 and has been receiving critical acclaim worldwide, is a ground breaking new visual and oral history of America's nine-year conflict in the Middle East. With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts by the world's top news photographers, Michael Kamber, a writer and photojournalist for over 25 years, interviewed thirty nine colleagues for the book, many of them from leading news organizations including Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Magnum, Newsweek, The New York Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time, The Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and The Washington Post.

 

Photojournalists on War photographers are: Lynsey Addario * Christoph Bangert * Patrick Baz * Nina Berman * Ben Brody * Andrea Bruce * Guy Calaf * Patrick Chauvel * Alan Chin * Carolyn Cole * Jerome Delay * Marco Di Lauro * Ashley Gilbertson * Stanley Greene *Todd Heisler * Tyler Hicks * Eros Hoagland * Chris Hondros * Ed Kashi * Karim Ben Khelifa * Wathiq Khuzaie * Gary Knight * Yuri Kozyrev * Rita Leistner * Benjamin Lowy * Zoriah Miller * Khalid Mohammed * John Moore * Peter Nicholls * Farah Nosh * Gilles Peress * Scott Peterson * Lucian Read * Eugene Richards * Ahmad Al-Rubaye * João Silva * Stephanie Sinclair * Bruno Stevens * Peter van Agtmael

Michael Kamber (www.kamberphoto.com) was the Times' principal photographer in Baghdad in 2007, the bloodiest year of the war. Other conflicts he has covered for the Times include Somalia, Afghanistan, the Congo, and Liberia. Kamber is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, and has taught at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and the International Center of Photography. He is the founder of the Bronx Documentary Center (www.bronxdoc.org) and is the recipient of a World Press Photo and many other awards.

ISBN: 978-0-292-74408-0

$65.00 hardcover
10 x 12 inches, 288 pages
166 color and b&w photos

                     Publisher Website: here

 Media Contact: Andrea Smith, andreasmith202@gmail.com; 646-220-5950

"We felt that to understand war photography we had to understand war"

Nina Berman, American, born 1960.Marine Wedding, Ohio 2006. From the series Marine Wedding. Inkjet print, ed. #1/3. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of an anonymous donor.

 

In case you missed this:

reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker

Via The Los Angeles Times
May 1, 2013

Q: How, and when, did the idea of the WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY exhibit come about?

A: In 2002, the museum acquired the print of Joe Rosenthal’s flag rising on Iwo Jima that is reliably thought to be the first print made from the negative. Rosenthal took it on a Friday, the negatives were sent to the big lab on Guam to be processed and then passed by censors and the man who developed the negative made a print for himself.
Will Michels, a photographer who works for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, came to me to talk about that print. For 10 years before coming to MFAH, Will was the restoration architect on the USS Texas battleship and in talking to World War II vets on the USS Texas during Iwo Jima, they talked about seeing the flag raised.
That discussion led to a small show of conflict photographs that the museum already owned, to more discussions about what we should acquire, and eventually to the decision to do an exhibition on the history of war photography


(click above link for full article and slide show)




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Eddie Adams, Nina Berman, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ashley Gilbertson, Yuri Kozyrev, Carl Mydans, Joe Rosenthal, Eric Smith,  Nick Ut, Sal Veder

A Must-Have Book

Ashley Gilbertson/VII

During fierce fighting in the southern part of Fullujah, four wounded men surrendered to Marines from the Bravo company, 1st Battalion, 8th Regiment, 1st Marine Division. The men claimed they were students trying to escape the fight, Nov. 13, 2004

Last summer, we posted about the forthcoming publication of a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of America’s now ten-year conflict in the Middle East, "Photojournalists on War". The New York Times Lens blog today has featured  the book's introductory essay by Dexter Filkin, with a slide show selection of photographs from the book. Among the 39 photojournalists in the book are Andrea Bruce, Carolyn Cole, Stanley Greene, Tyler Hicks, Chris Hondros, Yuri Kozyrev, Khalid Mohammed and Joao Silva.

The exhibit “Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq,” featuring work by Tim McLaughlin, Gary Knight and Peter Maass, opens March 14 at Mr. Kamber’s Bronx Documentary Center.



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