Free Spirit in a Troubled World - Hardcover

Phillips, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3931141209 ISBN 13: 9783931141202

Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc, 1996

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Phillips, John

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As a photographer for Life magazine from 1936 to 1959, John Phillips witnessed his share of troubles. His discerning and unflinching eye captured images as horrific as concentration camps and battlefield remnants with a kind of detachment that seemed to share his audience's senses of shock and outrage. He also found himself in the company of such illustrious leaders as FDR, Churchill, Stalin, and Tito during his prodigious travels across the world. Phillips, who died in 1996, was with the magazine from its inception, and his work helped to cement the publication's reputation for capturing unforgettable moments and images. Though plenty of lighter moments grace these pages, many of the included photographs are devoted to exposing one of the most turbulent periods of the 20th century, giving the book a historic sense of tragedy that can still be felt 50 years later.

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John Phillips (1914-1996) helped to create what we know as photojournalism. His work spanned decades and national boundaries, from the birth of the European jet set on the Riviera to the rise of the Third Reich and its subsequent atrocities. Phillips was a member of the first American oil mission to Saudi-Arabia in 1943, and in the same year he was secretly flown to the Tehran Conference, where he took the historic pictures of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. He chronicled the emergence of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as well as the birth of the new State of Israel. Additionally, Free Spirit In A Troubled World presents such luminaries as Queen Elizabeth, Cecil Beaton, Charlie Chaplin, Lana Turner, Tito, Coco Chanel, Alfred Stieglitz, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Andy Warhol, and Carmen Miranda. Phillips' photojournalism transcends the mere recording of people and events. In his eloquent words and vivid pictures are the stories of our past. Free Spirit In A Troubled World is a comprehensive 576 page volume marrying images with often witty, and always savvy, prose bringing his subjects and history to life. Free Spirit In A Troubled World is highly recommended reading for any aspiring photojournalist and all students of 20th century history. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 3931141209
• ISBN 13: 9783931141202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 572
• Editor: Keller Walter