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What matters : the world's preeminent photojournalists and thinkers depict essential issues of our time
Title
What matters : the world's preeminent photojournalists and thinkers depict essential issues of our time / created by David Elliot Cohen.
ISBN
9781402758348
1402758340
Published
New York : Sterling, c2008.
Physical Description
335 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm
Local Notes
Winterhouse Design and Visual Culture Collection -- Haas Family Arts Library copy.
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
Contains eighteen photoessays in which photojournalists investigate some of the most important issues confronting the world in the early twenty-first century, including climate change, AIDS, environmental degradation, and genocide, and includes commentary, resources, Web links, and suggestions on how to become involved.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 07, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-330) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Photographs that can change the world / by David Elliot Cohen
MAN VS. EARTH. Meltdown : a global warming travelogue / photographed by Cary Braasch ; written by Bill McKibben
Economic miracle, environmental disaster : the degradation of the Huai River Basin / photographed by Stephen Voss ; written by Elizabeth C. Economy
Thirsty world : the desperate everyday quest for safe water / photographed by Brent Stirton ; written by Peter H. Gleick
Fallout : the enduring tragedy of Chernobyl / photographed by Gerd Ludwig ; written by David R. Marples
MAN VS. MAN. Images of genocide : how should we respond? / photographed by Magnum ; written by Omer Bartov
The scorched earth of Darfur : the twenty-first century's first genocide / photographed by Marcus Bleasdale ; cowritten by Samantha Power and John Prendergast
Global jihad : before and after 9/11 / photographed by The Associated Press ; written by Fawaz A. Gerges
Bitter fruit : behind the scenes, America buries its Iraq War dead / photographed by Paul Fusco ; written by Gary Kamiya
THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. The bottom billion : how we can end global poverty / photographed by James Nachtwey ; written by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Shop 'til we drop : consumer culture in the new gilded age / photographed by Lauren Greenfield ; written by Juliet B. Schor
Children of the black dust : child labor in Bangladesh / photographed and written by Shehzad Noorani
Lost girls : the child brides of Afghanistan, Nepal and Ethiopia / photographed by Stephanie Sinclair ; written by Judith Bruce
The price of our oil addiction : scenes from the Niger river delta / photographed by Ed Kashi ; written by Michael Watts
The greatest migration : the Third World moves to the city / photographed by Sebastião Salgado ; written by Paul Knox
The fence : deconstructing America's "immigration crisis" / photographed by Anthony Suau ; written by Douglas S. Massey
MAN VS. DISEASE
Infected or affected : curing AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa / photographed by Tom Stoddart ; written by Helen Epstein
The end of malaria? : rolling back a killer / photographed by Maggie Hallahan ; written by Awa Marie Coll-Seck
What one person can do : the amazing life of Abdul Sattar Edhi / photographed by Shahidul Alam ; written by Richard Covington
What you can do : 193 ways to learn more and get involved.
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Pictorial works.
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