Ein bessers Buch zu dem Thema ist meiner Meinung nach: "Shooting
Under Fire - The World of the War Photographer" von Peter Howe (ISBN:
1-57965-215-8).
Das Buch wurde von 10 verschienden Kriegsfotographen zusammengestellt
und zwar:
Patrick Chauvel
Philip Jones Griffiths
Ron Haviv
Cahterine Leroy
Don McCullin
Susan Meiselas
Christopher Morris
James Nachtwey
Maggie Steber
Laurent Van der Stockt
Aus dem Klappentext:
"If no one bears witnes, how will the world know it is happening?"
In this volume, ten of today's leading combat photographers relate
incidents of tragedy, humor, bravery, and daring in locations from
Vietnam to Haiti, Ramallah to Chechnya, El Salvador to Sarajevo,
Panama to Afghanistan. Here, in their own words, are their stories of
life in the combat zone, together with many of the powerful images
they risked their lives to obrtain. [...] unlike soldiers, their role
is not always clear - are they honorable witnesses or reckless
voyeurs?
Was das Buch so interressant macht ist die Tatsache das es eben nicht
nur um "Hurra wir sind da" geht sondern um Krieg an sich. Das
"Handwerk" Krieg und deren auswirkungen, nicht nur auf die Kaempfer
sondern auch auf die Menschen die damit Leben muessen.
Das Buch ist voll mit Geschichten wie folgender Ausschnitt:
"The big mistake that the Israelis make nowadays is not allowing
journalists access. They have this paranoia about the press, which
means that most of us work on the Palestinian side, and then the
Israelis complain that our coverage is biased. Of course it is. If I
see a kid getting shot by an Israeli paratrooper, it's a good story,
but it's not the real story. It's true he got shot, but who sent him,
and why? That's the real story.
I've worked with the paratroopers, and they're very professional. If
they have no orders to shoot, they don't shoot; if they have orders
to shoot in the leg, they shoot in the leg; if they have orders to
kill, they kill. Usually, they're only shooting at a distance of
fifty meters or so, and they have scopes on their rifles. When
Laurent Van der Stockt got shot in the knee in Ramallah, it was no
mistake. There was only one shot. They know this guy's not going to
come back, and that's what they want. [...]" (Patrick Chauvel).
Die staerke des Buches liegt nicht alleine in den Bildern, sondern in
den Stories HINTER den Bildern.
Sehr empfehlenswert.
M.
Under Fire - The World of the War Photographer" von Peter Howe (ISBN:
1-57965-215-8).
Das Buch wurde von 10 verschienden Kriegsfotographen zusammengestellt
und zwar:
Patrick Chauvel
Philip Jones Griffiths
Ron Haviv
Cahterine Leroy
Don McCullin
Susan Meiselas
Christopher Morris
James Nachtwey
Maggie Steber
Laurent Van der Stockt
Aus dem Klappentext:
"If no one bears witnes, how will the world know it is happening?"
In this volume, ten of today's leading combat photographers relate
incidents of tragedy, humor, bravery, and daring in locations from
Vietnam to Haiti, Ramallah to Chechnya, El Salvador to Sarajevo,
Panama to Afghanistan. Here, in their own words, are their stories of
life in the combat zone, together with many of the powerful images
they risked their lives to obrtain. [...] unlike soldiers, their role
is not always clear - are they honorable witnesses or reckless
voyeurs?
Was das Buch so interressant macht ist die Tatsache das es eben nicht
nur um "Hurra wir sind da" geht sondern um Krieg an sich. Das
"Handwerk" Krieg und deren auswirkungen, nicht nur auf die Kaempfer
sondern auch auf die Menschen die damit Leben muessen.
Das Buch ist voll mit Geschichten wie folgender Ausschnitt:
"The big mistake that the Israelis make nowadays is not allowing
journalists access. They have this paranoia about the press, which
means that most of us work on the Palestinian side, and then the
Israelis complain that our coverage is biased. Of course it is. If I
see a kid getting shot by an Israeli paratrooper, it's a good story,
but it's not the real story. It's true he got shot, but who sent him,
and why? That's the real story.
I've worked with the paratroopers, and they're very professional. If
they have no orders to shoot, they don't shoot; if they have orders
to shoot in the leg, they shoot in the leg; if they have orders to
kill, they kill. Usually, they're only shooting at a distance of
fifty meters or so, and they have scopes on their rifles. When
Laurent Van der Stockt got shot in the knee in Ramallah, it was no
mistake. There was only one shot. They know this guy's not going to
come back, and that's what they want. [...]" (Patrick Chauvel).
Die staerke des Buches liegt nicht alleine in den Bildern, sondern in
den Stories HINTER den Bildern.
Sehr empfehlenswert.
M.