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Sarajevo Self-Portrait: The View From Inside by Leslie Fratkin, Tom Gjelten |
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Sarajevo Self-Portrait: The View From Inside by Leslie Fratkin, Tom Gjelten
Publisher : Umbrage Editions
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From Publishers Weekly
Nine Bosnian photographers present 130 color and b & w photographs of their ravaged homeland, accompanied by statements about the process of documenting the war in Sarajevo Self-Portrait: The View from Inside, compiled by freelance photographer Leslie Fratkin. These war and postwar images will resonate particularly sharply with American viewers following September 11. Alongside his images of children playing with dolls and wooden guns in the devastated city of Zenica, Mladen Pikulic describes his decision to show "the normal life of children" during the war. Kemal Hadzic, a former Bosnian soldier, shows before-and-after images of 500-year-old Islamic architecture destroyed in the war, as well as portraits of his fellow soldiers; Danilo Krstanovic shows civilian victims lying where they fell in 1992 and people in food lines behind sniper screens. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
In 1984, the multiethnic city of Sarajevo was proud host to the Winter Olympics. Less than a decade later, the world watched, with both horror and indifference, as its centuries-old churches and mosques were bombed into ruins and thousands of civilians perished. But what one often learns from television is the questionable truth of the moment as seen through the eyes of the visitor, armed with a foreign passport and a geographically bound perspective, who tours troubled spots to show rather than to comprehend. The world rarely saw how many Sarajevans snubbed shallow patriotic ideologies and embraced the challenge of artistic creation in the most vicious circumstances, both as a way of documenting and of communicating the unspeakable. A stroll through the peaceful Sarajevo today affirms the city's intrinsically imaginative character: beautifully carved gun shells, for example, are sold as souvenirs rather than discarded as painful war residue. This book is a sincere attempt to celebrate Sarajevo as a city of gifted artists. The nine native photographers and their disturbing yet arresting images embody what Bosnia and its capital once represented: a religious and ethnic harmony, not just diversity. Despite the weakly translated essays with histrionic overtones that introduce each photographer, this kind of genuine and unrehearsed photography educates more convincingly and enduringly than words ever could. Mirela Roncevic, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute
...in Sarajevo ... many of us got to know what was in store after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Roy Gutman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, A Witness to Genocide
The gifted and unsung photographers of Sarajevo, watching their beloved capital under siege...
Laura Silber, author, Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
This book takes you on an extraordinary and revealing journey inside a city torn by war.
Book Description
Sarajevo Self-Portrait presents the work and words of nine photographers from a country in the aftermath of war. Created with what little film they had, in ruined darkrooms without electricity or running water, the photographs in this book are not only hard proof of the destruction and the suffering of this once-beautiful country but a salute to its indomitable spirit. For a country so brutally torn apart by racial conflict and hate, and for the rest of the world which largely ignored Bosnia's cries for help, Sarajevo Self-Portrait offers an authentic view of Bosnia in a completely new way - through the eyes of those actually living inside it.
About the Author
Leslie Fratkin, project director for Sarajevo Self-portrait, is a freelance photographer based in New York City. Her work is widely published by magazines throughout the world, featured in several books and exhibited in cities worldwide. Fratkin first went to Bosnia and the city of Sarajevo in 1995, meeting with local photographers,filmmakers, and other artists. Their experiences of war and the nearly four-year siege of their city led her to create Sarajevo Self-portrait: The View from Inside. She is the recipient of several grants and fellowships, from foundations including the Soros Foundation, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, The Righteous Persons Foundation, and Human Rights Watch.
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