The Bang Bang Club - Snapshots from a hidden war

Greg Marinovich, João Silva

Basic Books

2000

225 páginas

7h 30m

ISBN-13: 9780465044139

The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young war photographers, friends and colleagues: Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, war correspondants during the last years of apartheid, who took many of the photographs that encapsulate the final violent years of racist white South Africa. Two of them won Pulitzer Prizes for individual photos. Ken, the oldest and a mentor to the others, died, accidentally shot while working; Kevin, the most troubled of the four, committed suicide weeks after winning his Pulitzer for a photograph of a starving baby in the Sudanese famine. Written by Greg and Joao, The Bang-Bang Club tells their uniquely powerful war stories. It tells the story of four remarkable young men, the stresses, tensions and moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme violence, pain and suffering, the relationships between the four and the story of the end of apartheid. An immensely powerful, riveting and harrowing book, and an invakuable contribution to the literary genre of war photography. An eye-opening book for readers of Susan Sontag.

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3.5 (Bom)

Apesar do inglês antigo, e de ter sido escrito por fotógrafos (famosos por escreverem mal) é um bom livro. Descreve muito bem a rotina do grupo de fotojornalistas, além de explorar temas pessoais pouco citados na mídia