Protest!: Sixty-Five Years of Rebellion in Photographs - Hardcover

Cussons, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0233003444 ISBN 13: 9780233003443

Verlag: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 2011

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Reseña del editor:

Throughout history, mass demonstrations and protests - both peaceful and violent - have been used to demand and bring about reform. The recent Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions and the resulting shockwaves that continue to reverberate across the Middle East serve as a potent reminder of "people power" in the quest for change. Protest! is a photographic history covering over 60 years of demonstrations and rebellion. Broad in scope, the powerful images in this book capture diverse and key moments in the history of popular protest, from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the momentous struggle for African-American civil rights in the 1950s and '60s, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the huge anti-war marches held after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In an age of 24-hour television news coverage, it is clear that the still photograph retains the power to capture what Henri Cartier Bresson the "decisive moments of history". Protest! features the work of some of the world's best photo-journalists, including acclaimed photographers Josef Koudelka, whose iconic photographs of the Prague Spring became symbols of the resistance, Bruno Barbey, who documented the French student riots of 1968, and Alex Majoli, who is currently photographing the ongoing Libyan uprising. Ambitious and unique, the stirring photographs in this compelling book provide a window upon a period of unprecedented political, social and cultural protest.

Biografía del autor:

John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has worked for the BBC since 1966 and has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year, first in 1991 for his coverage of the Gulf War in Baghdad, and again in 2000 for his reporting from Belgrade during the NATO bombing campaign.

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• Verlag: Andre Deutsch Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0233003444
• ISBN 13: 9780233003443
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208