Chernobyl Legacy bears witness to the present-day effects of a horrific nuclear accident of unprecedented magnitude. Searing images documenting the effects following the Chernobyl disaster are central to the mission of this book, the work of noted photojournalist Paul Fusco of Magnum Photos and Magdalena Caris. Commentaries by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, actor Michael Douglas and Didier J. Cherpitel, the secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Chernobyl Legacy

Arts & Photography

Fusco, Paul

Photography & Video

De.Mo

In November 2002, war photographer Christopher Anderson had a chance encounter with a Holga, a plastic toy camera manufactured in China. Expecting it to be nothing more than a game, Anderson quickly found a kind of freedom with the plastic camera that differed greatly from his usual work as a war photographer. “My work requires a certain intellectual engagement in trying to visually communicate information both literal and emotional. But I found something very different with this camera. Because it’s a toy, I couldn’t control it the way I normally would. I couldn’t take pictures that were the result of an engaged thought process, because it was physically impossible with this camera,” explains Anderson. Instead, he found himself reacting and taking pictures in a much more instinctive way. “The pictures that I was taking were free of meaning or message and were much more revealing about how I reacted to scenes that I encountered while going about my life,” he adds. Anderson used the plastic camera for a period of eight months, and his photographs were guided solely by emotion and intuition. The softcover book, containing a collection of 54 images, is housed in a colorful box that makes the perfect accessory for any coffee table. Christopher Anderson was born in Canada in 1970. He has produced pictures for many of the world’s most highly regarded publications. His work has documented many conflicts and social issues, such as the Afghan refugee crisis and the plight of Haitian immigrants sailing to America. He is a contract photographer for U.S. News & World Report and regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic Adventure. Anderson has received the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the Visa d’Or in Perpignan, the Kodak Young Photographer of the Year Award and the Picture of the Year Award.

Nonfiction

ANDERSON, Christopher

Individual Artists

Presents testimonials, personal stories, essays, poems, and images from a range of contributors about the September 11 terrorist attacks and the acts of heroism and good will in the aftermath of the attacks.

New York September Eleven Two Thousand One

MOYERS, BILL

FRIEDMAN, Thomas

Schnabel, Julian

Dreyfuss, Richard

Kennedy, Jr., Robert F.

Baravalle, Giorgio

Modine, Cari

CHOMSKY, Noam.

RUSHDIE,SALMAN

Vanishing is a riveting collection of 16 photo essays taken over 16 years by one of the world’s most acclaimed photojournalists. It is a tour through endangered life forms and ruined environments, human catastrophes and destruction—resulting in vanishing cultures. From the book’s introduction: “Vanishing speaks on behalf of life, despite man’s ever-threatening presence. This body of work offers nothing in the way of answers, neither is it a sermon in hopes of brighter days . . . Vanishing gives those who go about their business, living their lives, a chance to look beyond their worlds and into others.” Included are Guyana, Bohemia, Beirut, Bolivia, Congo, Louisiana, Zimbabwe, Ecuador, Prague, Chernobyl, Angola, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Iraq and New York City. Antonin Kratochvil, born in 1947 in Czechoslovakia, is a founding member of VII, the esteemed cooperative picture agency. Over the past 25 years, his diverse assignments have taken him around the world. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Time, Condé Nast Traveler, GEO, Mother Jones, Smithsonian magazine, Natural History and the United Nations’ Choices magazine. His other books are Broken Dream and Incognito. Michael Persson was once a war correspondent. His essays have appeared in the Harvard University School of Journalism’s Neiman Reports, The American Society for Free Speech and in Rethink: Cause and Consequences of September 11. This is his third collaboration with Kratochvil.

Vanishing

Kratochvil, Antonin

September 11 was a departure point that will define our future. Consequently, we have all been forced to rethink, an act that requires introspection and reinterpretation of standard thinking.
Rethink, a de.MO project, is a book about history and politics, a book about our lives and about our world and what we are trying to accomplish in it. Rethink confronts our diversity, our stupidity and cleverness, our preoccupations and rage, our laughter and desperate tears, our need for justice and love, our thirst for blood and power, our need to nourish and be nourished, our need to breathe, close our eyes and dream.
The contributors to Rethink had the freedom to create their own voices and were encouraged to respond in a manner that would acknowledge the historical events and causes that brought us to September 11. Their varied responses create a document of great interest at a time when politics and values are in tremendous flux.
In Rethink, we are forced to be open-minded, to review all opinions and issues with the possibility that we might emerge with a new perspective and personal ideology.
Contributors include: Jon Lee Anderson, Kofi Annan, John Berger, Alexandra Boulat, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George W. Bush, Noam Chomsky, Wesley Clark, John Cooley, The Dalai Lama, Robert Fisk, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Thomas L. Friedman, Gunter Grass, Ron Haviv, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Ignatieff, Muzamil Jaleel, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Lewis H. Lapham, Matt McAllester, Takis Michas, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, Joseph S. Nye, David Rieff, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, Eyad Sarraj, Uri Savir, Jonathan Schell, William Schultz, Susan Sontag and Admiral Stansfield Turner
Rethink has received the Photo District News Best Book Selection and the Communication Arts Best Book Selection.

Rethink: Cause and Consequences of September 11

War reveals the true story of what our country has faced since that fateful Tuesday in 2001. Featuring 223 photographs, insightful vignettes and three thought-provoking major essays, War is a powerful collaborative effort from VII, a cutting-edge photo agency cooperatively owned by nine elite photojournalists. The three full-length essays, written by eminent journalists Peter Maass, Remy Ourdan and David Rieff, discuss the three major crises of the twenty-first century from a social, political and militaristic standpoint and further illuminate the powerful photographic images in War. The photographers of VII-Christopher Anderson, Alexandra Boulat, Lauren Greenfield, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer-are used to witnessing, up close and in person, events of international turmoil. That is the duty of a photojournalist-to bear witness and to document history-and few would dispute that these photojournalists are the world's very best. In addition to documenting the experience of 9/11, War takes an incisive look at the images from Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, as well as the airstrikes and US occupation of Iraq. In War, the photographers of VII have created a shockingly intimate portrait of US foreign policy and the most critical moments of American history in the beginning of the twenty-first century. What you see here will stun you. War has received the Picture of the Year Best Photography Book, the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers Selected Book, the Photo District News Best Book Selection and the Independent Publisher Awards Best Current Events.

War: USA.Afghanistan.Iraq

Knight, Gary

Greenfield, Lauren

Haviv, Ron

James Nachtwey

Boulat, Alexandra

Tsunami is a document bearing witness to one of the worst and unprecedented natural catastrophes of our time. The disaster’s enormity dictates the large-scale format of this book, which attempts to capture, in two-dimensional form, the sweeping magnitude of this event. Once again, the acclaimed photographers of VII—Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Joachim Ladefoged, James Nachtwey, and John Stanmeyer—have captured the utter devastation that has annihilated so many and so much. With an introduction by renowned writer Simon Winchester and a thought-provoking essay by Thomas J. Dougherty, executive director of Doctors of the World, Tsunami brings to light the reality of an event that has, and will, change the face of many nations in the Indian Ocean region. This project is a document—a message in a bottle to be kept as a unique record. With proceeds going to Doctors of the World, Tsunami is a nonprofit initiative not only to help the people affected, but also to raise awareness about the countless people suffering every day in our world.

Tsunami: A Document of Devastation

Scott Peterson takes ice houses as his subjects. Rejecting a traditional documentary approach, the artist does formal studies of these vernacular structures and stark, static and silent landscapes. According to Peterman, the shacks "are entirely utilitarian in their purpose, yet put together in surprisingly ingenious ways, appearing as crude minimalist sculpture." Reminiscent of works by Ed Rusha, Dan Graham, and Sol LeWitt, these large-scale color photographs effectively convey the experience of being alone in a vast and empty vista. Scott Peterson was born in Pennsylvania in 1968. He received an MFA, Photography (Ward Cheney Memorial Award Recipient) in 1998 from the Yale University School of Art and a B.A., Philosophy, University of New Hampshire in 1991. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States. Forthcoming will be an exhibition at Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York.

Seven Years: New England Ice Houses

Images is a compilation of eighty unpublished images by Noelle Hoeppe that explode across facing pages, transporting the reader into a rich world of color, texture, and shape. Noelle Hoeppe's photographs are provocative and beautiful, raw and delicate, carnal and pure. Images is a reflection of her unique view of the human form. She celebrates the beauty of its imperfections, juxtaposing her portraits with graphically rich still lives. Images is a narrative based on the senses, from the icy stare of a young woman whose red hair contrasts strikingly with her porcelain skin, to a close-up of a curvaceous woman's thighs and breasts, to a black-and-white image of a nude pregnant woman contrasted with a still life of a spoon holding a lush red liquid. Noelle Hoeppe's twenty-five years of experience as a photographer include projects with Cartier and Fuji Film, portrait sessions with celebrities such as Kristin Scott Thomas, and numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. After an initial education in graphic design at L'ecole des Arts Appliques Duperre in Paris, Hoeppe attended Parsons School of Design in New York. A prolific photographer, she is part of many important private collections in Paris. Her work has been featured in Bloom Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Martha Stewart Living.

Images

Pope John Paul II is a remarkable photographic journey documenting the 25 years of the papacy of John Paul II, one of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century. Spanning from the days when Karol Wojtyla was still a cardinal to his death and the election of today’s Pope Benedict XVI, this book contains historical photographs and very personal moments of the life of the pope. These revealing and poignant photographs show the pope in his full humanity, and not just as the former head of the Catholic Church: photographs of the pope laughing, with his clothes blown by the wind, while President Jimmy Carter struggles to help fix them; the pope losing his papal hat while kissing the ground; a beautiful series of six sequential photographs capturing the various intimate expressions of the pope … all of these give the book a personal feeling.  Designed to be the size of an average hand-held bible—and with gold-edged pages and ribbon dividers—this book includes 180 images bound in 306 pages and promises to become a keepsake.  The photographs are from the famed agency Contact Press Images, headed by Robert Pledge, who also edited the book.

Pope John Paul II: His Remarkable Journey (Spanish)

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