Don McCullin

The definitive retrospective of one of Britain's leading photographers, and arguably the greatest recorder of conflict in the latter 20th century. The book opens and ends in the Somerset landscape that surrounds McCullin's home, but the whole sequence of photographs encompasses a ravaged northern England, war in Cyprus, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia and Beirut, as well as riots in Derry and famine in Bangladesh. The climax of the book is among the cannibals and tribespeople deep in the jungles of Irian Jaya, where the photographer focuses on humanity in an almost Stone Age condition. The introduction by Harold Evans is drawn from his long experience of working with Mccullin. The novelist and essayist Susan Sontag has contributed an essay on McCullin and the role of witness to conflict.

ISBN 0224071181   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780224071185 (What's this?)   Pages 296 Publisher Vintage   Volumes 1 Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd   Weight (grammes) 1194 Format Hardback   Published in London Publication date 21 Aug 2003   Previous ISBN 9780224061339 Non-book description landscape format   Height (mm) 227 Photographer McCullin, Don   Width (mm) 217 Writer of introduction Harold Evans   Spine width (mm) 30 Library of Congress TR820   Academic level General DEWEY 779.092

"This stunningly produced book reminds us that McCullin was the greatest British photographer of the twentieth century... You turn page after page of his piercing images open mouthed... this book is worth every penny." -- "The Independent"

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