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OverviewAcclaimed war photographer Sean Smith has covered all the major conflicts of the past few years, from the Middle East to the Congo. Frontlines brings together some of his finest work, and offers both a chronicle of major flashpoints and a unique insight into modern warfare and its aftermath. Starting with the violence that erupted on the streets of Bethlehem in 2000, when Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli soldiers, Smith moves on to provide fascinating and poignant glimpses of life in Afghanistan before the US-led campaign and then the grim realities of the military onslaught and Taliban insurgency that followed. He bears witness to the devastation wrought in Lebanon by the Israeli bombardment of 2006, and the scenes of chaos in the Congo as the government clashed with Tutsi rebels. But it is to Iraq, the most politically divisive conflict of modern times, that Smith returns again and again. He shows us a society striving to hold itself together in the months leading up to the invasion of 2003. He follows the progress of troops battling against opposition and sectarian attack. And he records the Shia uprisings of 2007 and the US military surge that sought to contain them. This is an extraordinary record of over a decade of conflict, and a worthy contribution to the great tradition of war photography. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sean SmithPublisher: Guardian Books Imprint: Guardian Books Dimensions: Width: 20.10cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 25.30cm Weight: 1.262kg ISBN: 9780852652428ISBN 10: 0852652429 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 03 August 2007 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsSmith is a fine documenter of the violent and, often, the prosaic quality of early 21st-century regional conflict. --Publishers Weekly Smith's photographs capture both the beauty and beastliness of war. --Anthropology Review Database Smith is a fine documenter of the violent and, often, the prosaic quality of early 21st-century regional conflict. --Publishers Weekly Author InformationSean Smith has become internationally recognised for his unstinting images of conflict and war. Over the past two decades he has chronicled some of the world's most intractable and controversial conflicts including Israel, Bosnia, Chechnya, the Congo, Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition to stills photography, Smith now shoots video on most of his assignments and received the Royal Television Society award for Best International News (Iraq) in 2008. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |