Afghanistan - Hardcover
"Afghanistan" is introduced by the French essayist and traveller André Velter and includes essays and verses by the Afghani poet Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, who was assassinated in Pakistan in 1988. 76 duotone photographs.
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Chris Steele-Perkins first went to Afghanistan in 1994 on assignment for Medicins Sans Frontières. It had long held a place in his imagination, going back to the days of the Hippy Trail. The reality, as always, was completely different and infinitely more compelling: "It was heroic, beautiful, violent, twisted, gracious and tragic. The experience of being there works its way narcotically into one's being; an infection of the soul demanding that you return."
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These photographs are drawn from four trips Steele-Perkins made to Afghanistan during the course of four years. In the midst of a complex civil war, he captures the continuing cycles of everyday life. Images from the front line mingle with scenes of disrupted life in the fields, villages and towns; of an orphanage; of refugees and displaced families; of lapis lazuli miners; of someone picking up the pieces after the 1998 earthquake; of a cock fight and the horseback sport of bushkashi.
Chris Steele-Perkins became a freelance photographer in 1971, shortly after completing a Psychology degree at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and joined the Magnum agency eight years later. His major work has been in Britain, Central America, Lebanon, Africa and Afghanistan. He is presently working extensively in Japan. The work from Afghanistan was exhibited at the Perpignan Festival and is touring Britain.
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- PublisherWestzone Pub Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 190339113X
- ISBN 13 9781903391136
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Ahganistan Chris Steele-Perkins Published by Westzone Publishing Limited, 2001 NEW Hardbound Through 76 duotone photographs interspersed with the verse of Afghan poet Bahodine Majrouh and a few short, diarylike pieces written by photographer Steele-Perkins, readers are given an impressionistic glimpse of harsh contemporary life in Afghanistan. A freelance photographer for the Magnum Agency, Steele-Perkins constructs a vision of the ravages of the internecine strife among the disparate Afghan peoples and the destruction of the infrastructure of their daily lives. Based on Steele-Perkins's four sojourns in Afghanistan, this book presents an implied criticism of the Taliban but wisely eschews a polemic stance for who are the angels in a civil war. The stark photographs address destruction and mayhem on the one hand and daily life in the fields and cities on the other. The pictures are allowed to tell their own story, with thumbnail copies with captions tucked away at the rear of the work. Steele-Perkins's diary excerpts provide some context to the overall work and Majrouh's poetry further enhances the impressionistic tone of the work. Recommended for all public libraries. John F. Riddick, Central Michigan Univ. Lib., Mt. Pleasant ISBN 1-903391-13-X. Seller Inventory # 2305
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