MY JOURNEY AS A WITNESS (SIGNED)

SHAHIDUL ALAM Rosa Maria Falvo (Editor); Sebastiao

ISBN 10: 8857209660 / ISBN 13: 9788857209661

Published by Skira / Bengal Foundation, Milan, 2011

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 224 .Photobook. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Original publisher's matt lime green boards lettered black at the spine. Signed presentation from the author 'To Christopher Steele-Perkins 'Looking forward to the Magnum in Bangladesh show. Shahidul Alam 22/06/2020. ' Sydney. Christopher Steele-Perkins (born 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his depictions of Africa, Afghanistan, England, Northern Ireland, and Japan. He has produced several photobooks including 'The Troubles' 'England, my England' 'Fuji' 'Tokyo Love Hello' and 'The Teds.' Fine in near fine dust jacket with faint creasing at edges. No other inscriptions, not price-clipped.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MY JOURNEY AS A WITNESS (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Skira / Bengal Foundation, Milan
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8857209660
• ISBN 13: 9788857209661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

An insight into the evolution of one of the most significant movements in contemporary photography, through the eyes and voice of the man who shaped it. An extraordinary artist, Shahidul Alam is a photographer, writer, activist, and social entrepreneur who used his art to chronicle the social and artistic struggles in a country known largely for poverty and disasters.
Lucid and personal, this much-awaited book includes over 100 photographs tracing Alam’s artistic career, activism, and the founding of photography organizations. From early images shot in England to photographs of the last two decades in his native Bangladesh, this is a journey from photojournalism into social justice. Alam’s superb imagery is matched by his perceptive accounts, at once deeply intimate and bitingly satirical.          

About the Author

Shahidul Alam, profoundly influenced by inequality in his native Bangladesh and The Liberation War, pursued a life in photography to challenge oppression and imperialism in all its forms. Attacked, arrested, and threatened with death, Alam built what many consider to be the finest photography school in the world, an award-winning agency, and the world’s most diverse photography festival. Widely celebrated, Alam claims as his achievements not the awards and exhibitions but the people he has trained and the lives he has transformed. Rosa Maria Falvo is a writer and curator, and Skira’s international commissions editor, specializing in Asian contemporary art.