This is a beautifully produced book, a huge coffee-table format feast of Don McCullin’s very best photographs, along with a generous helping of many less well-known ones. War photos McCullin is well known as one of the great war photographers of the second half of the twentieth century, having been close up to conflict across […]
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Posted by Simon on March 9, 2017
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Shaped by War by Don McCullin (2010)
I felt I was in the right place at the right time. I had an almost magnetic emotional sense of direction pulling me to extraordinary places. (p.37) In 2010 the Imperial War Museum held an exhibition of the war-related photos of Don McCullin. This is the large-format, coffee table book of the exhibition. It features […]
Posted by Simon on March 7, 2017
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/shaped-by-war-don-mccullin/
Unreasonable Behaviour by Don McCullin (2015)
‘I needed to be at home. I needed the peace of my own country, England. Yet when I go home and sleep in my own bed, I soon become restless. I am not shaped for a house. I grew up in harsh surroundings. I have slept under tables in battles for days on end. There […]
Posted by Simon on March 3, 2017
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Syria: A Conflict Explored @ the Imperial War Museum
As part of its centenary the IWM is launching a new exhibition strand called Conflict Now to explore current conflicts around the world, seen through the eyes of artists, photographers, refugees, citizen journalists, war correspondents and so on. Syria: A conflict explored The first of these is Syria: A Conflict Explored which will comprise a series of exhibitions and events addressing […]
Posted by Simon on May 2, 2017
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In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood (2005)
Michael Wood This is Wood’s first book. Back in 1979 he burst onto our TV screens as the boyishly enthusiastic presenter of a BBC series about ‘the Dark Ages’, spread across eight episodes, his hippy length hair and flapping flairs striding along castle walls and over Iron Age forts. I remember chatting to a middle-aged […]
Posted by Simon on May 1, 2017
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/in-search-of-the-dark-ages-michael-wood/
People Power: Fighting for Peace @ Imperial War Museum London
O silly and unlucky are the brave, Who tilt against the world’s enormous wrong. Their serious little efforts will not save Themselves or us. The enemy is strong. O silly and unlucky are the brave. (W.H. Auden, 1937) It’s the centenary of the Imperial War Museum, set up in the same year as the Battle […]
Posted by Simon on March 26, 2017
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Dispatches by Michael Herr (1977)
‘… the madness, the bitterness, the horror and doom of it…’ (p.87) Types of history There’s a vast and ever-growing factual historiography of the Vietnam War, which for the past twenty years has been able to take advantage of the post-communist opening up of archives in Moscow, Beijing and Hanoi to present a fully-rounded history […]
Posted by Simon on March 1, 2017
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/dispatches-michael-herr/
Conflict, Time, Photography @ Tate Modern
A major exhibition of art photography about war and warzones, what’s not to like? The images come ready-made with all sorts of poignancies and pathos. To mix it up the curators tried something radically different from the predictable chronological order, namely arranging the images by the length of time after the event they are addressing […]
Posted by Simon on March 15, 2015
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