Don McCullin
McCullin is a gifted and relentless photographer with an unlimited empathy for human beings facing hardship. Page by page, he shows us workers, drafted soldiers, and Third World people mired in constant struggle. There is no joy in this book, just the recording of hard lives carried out in silent dignity. McCullin, who provided front-line images for the Sunday Times Magazine from 1966 to 1984, presents this impressive retrospective in chronological order, covering the last four decades of the 20th century. Working in black and white, he shows us wars in Cyprus, Vietnam, Beirut, and Congo. In northern England, he shows the battles between people and their environment, a sooty mess of slag and clouds. In Bangladesh, Biafra, and India, he gives us the visual truth of famine. His most shocking and memorable photos are of corpses people frozen in hideous screams and postures. Harold Evans wrote the respectful introduction, and McCullin's life is noted in a sequence of biographical notes. Susan Sontag, ever probing the intellectual basis of photography, offers an essay on this photographic artist's moving work. Recommended. David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CTCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.