Ghosts in the landscape
Subtitle: Vietnam revisited
By: photographs by Craig J. Barber ; essay by Alison Devine Nordström.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Umbrage Editions; Brand: Umbrage Editions
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781884167539
Description: "After serving in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine, photographer Craig Barber returns twenty-eight years later to a country that he first saw through the eyes of combat. Haunted by the deaths he witnessed, Barber carries his memories of being eighteen with a taunting bull's-eye painted on his helmet, the smell of smoldering bombs, and the cries of the dying back to Vietnam in order to put his ghosts to rest. In the Vietnamese countryside, he captures the healing landscapes with bomb craters turned into fish-rearing ponds and watering reservoirs, metal sections from former airstrip runways transformed into window grates, and shell casings functioning as fence posts. An essay by Alison Devine Nordstrom, Curator of Photographs at the George Eastman House, Rochester, offers insight into photography's role in unlayering the past."--BOOK JACKET.