Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1843744 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Synopsis
Of the thousands of images that emerged from the decade of war in former Yugoslavia, Ron Haviv's stand out as a uniquely profound record. These award-winning photographs, depicting both the urgency and the tragedy of war, became internationally known in the pages of Newsweek, Time and Paris Match. This extraordinary compilation bridges the gap between what the West has commonly witnessed of the war in the Balkans - soldiers, destroyed cities and refugees and the stark but dignified reality of everyday life during the conflict and its aftermath. Insights into the personal passions and geo-political tensions underlying the conflict are revealed in authoritative essays by Chuck Sudetic (former New York Times special correspondent, now contributing editor at Rolling Stone), David Rieff (author of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West) and Bernard Koucher (founder of the Nobel Prize-winning Medicins Sans Frontieres and UN governor of Kosovo).