Of War, Peace and Angels

Carole Naggar

 
 
Index of books
 
1

"This is how one pictures the angel of history"...

Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," Illuminations.New York: Schocken Books, 1969.
Order Illuminations

Photograph by Mitja Koman, in Gothic Sculpture in Istria by Vanda Ekl. Zagreb: Graficki zavod Hrvatske, 1982.

 
  2

...as I consider the war pictures...

Gilles Peress, The New Yorker,July 19, 1999, p. 64-77.

 
3

...it is our urgent, self-assigned task...

Paul Lowe: see the Magnum Photos website.

Carolyn Forché, ed., Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness,W.W. Norton, 1993.
Order Against Forgetting

 
  4

Not forgetting. Bearing witness...

Keichi Tahara, Les Anges de Croatie(Croatia's Angels), Paris: Editions Assouline, 1995.

 
  5

...part of a group of humanistic photographers...

See Edouard Boubat,by Bernard George, Collier Books, McMillan Company.

Also: Woman,Aidan Ellis Publishers, London, and

Anges(Angels), Paris: Atelier d'Expression, 1974.

 
6

Sometimes the present is a dead-end...

Pat Barker's trilogy The Ghost Road,A William Abrahams Book published by Plume, a division of Penguin Books.
Order The Ghost Road

Also Another World,Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY.
Order Another World

 

7

"Gentlemen, you're now entering the dire sink of iniquity."

Barbie Zelizer, Remembering to Forget/Holocaust memory through the camera's eye,The University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Order Remembering to Forget

George Rodger, Village of the Nubas,originally published in 1955 by Delpire in his Huit collection, reissued as a fac-simile by Phaidon, London, 1999.
Order Village of the Nubas

Rodger monograph Humanity and Inhumanity: The photographic journey of George Rodger(text by Bruce Bernard, foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson), London: Phaidon, 1994, 1999.
Order Humanity and Inhumanity

 
8

...has influenced an entire generation...

Philip Jones Griffiths, Vietnam Inc.,1971.

Also Dark Odyssey,New York: Aperture, 1996.
Order Dark Odyssey

 

9

...less interested in being only a photographer...

Susan Meiselas, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History.New York: Random House, 1997.
Order Kurdistan

Also Nicaragua.New York: Random House, 1980.


Letizia Battaglia, Letizia Battaglia,New York: Aperture, 1999.
Order Letizia Battaglia

 
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