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 With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness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
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Contact: Andrea Smith, andreasmith202@gmail.com;
646-220-5950
