Bedrooms of the Fallen - Rilegato

Gilbertson, Ashley

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ISBN 10: 022606686X ISBN 13: 9780226066868

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2014

Riassunto

For more than a decade, the United States has been fighting wars so far from the public eye as to risk being forgotten, the struggles and sacrifices of its volunteer soldiers almost ignored. Photographer and writer Ashley Gilbertson has been working to prevent that. His dramatic photographs of the Iraq war for the New York Times and his bookWhiskey Tango Foxtrot took readers into the mayhem of Baghdad, Ramadi, Samarra, and Fallujah. But withBedrooms of the Fallen, Gilbertson reminds us that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have also reached deep into homes far from the noise of battle, down quiet streets and country roadsthe homes of family and friends who bear their grief out of view.
The book’s wide-format black-and-white images depict the bedrooms of forty fallen soldiersthe equivalent of a single platoonfrom the United States, Canada, and several European nations. Left intact by families of the deceased, the bedrooms are a heartbreaking reminder of lives cut short: we see high school diplomas and pictures from prom, sports medals and souvenirs, and markers of the idealism that carried them to war, like images of the Twin Towers and Osama Bin Laden. A moving essay by Gilbertson describes his encounters with the families who preserve these private memorials to their loved ones, and shares what he has learned from them about war and loss.
Bedrooms of the Fallen is a masterpiece of documentary photography, and an unforgettable reckoning with the human cost of war.

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L'autore:

Ashley Gilbertson’s photographs have appeared in the New Yorker, theNew York Times Magazine, Stern and other publications. His work is included in collections of major museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. Among numerous honors, Gilbertson won the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal for his photographs of the battle of Fallujah and in 2012 was awarded a National Magazine Award for theNew York TimesMagazine feature of The Bedrooms of the Fallen project.

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• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 022606686X
• ISBN 13: 9780226066868
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 108