Bedrooms of the Fallen
$100.21
- Hardcover
120 pages
- Release Date
27 June 2014
Summary
For more than a decade, the United States has been fighting wars so far from the public eye as to risk being forgotten, the struggles and sacrifices of its volunteer soldiers almost ignored. Photographer and writer Ashley Gilbertson has been working to prevent that. His dramatic photographs of the Iraq war for the New York Times and his book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot took readers into the mayhem of Baghdad, Ramadi, Samarra, and Fallujah. But with Bedrooms of the Fallen, Gilbe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226066868 |
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| ISBN-10: | 022606686X |
| Author: | Ashley Gilbertson, Philip Gourevitch |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 27 June 2014 |
| Weight: | 992g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 32mm x 2mm |
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“The need to see America’s twenty-first-century war dead, and to make them seen-to give their absence presence-has consumed Ashley Gilbertson for much of the past decade…. To picture death, Gilbertson decided to picture how and where the dead had lived. He set about photographing their bedrooms, many of which had been preserved by their families in much the same spirit that Gilbertson preserved them with his camera: as memorials…. But taken together, these photographs defy any effort to seek in a room’s furnishings an echo of its former occupant’s fate. Their power lies in reminding us of the disconnect between life and death.” (Philip Gourevitch, from the foreword)”
About The Author
Ashley Gilbertson
Ashley Gilbertson’s photographs have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications. His work is included in collections of major museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. Among numerous honors, Gilbertson won the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal for his photographs of the battle of Fallujah and in 2012 was awarded a National Magazine Award for the New York Times Magazine feature of The Bedrooms of the Fallen project.
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