Along the way we accompany them on free-lance assignments to other war-torn regions, including the former Yugoslavia and the Sudan, where one member of the group shoots what has become a world-famous photograph of a starving child stalked by a vulture. In this stunning new book, the group’s two surviving members recount their political, emotional, and personal journeys through these violent years as South Africa moved toward democracy. "Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.The Bang-Bang Club is the story of four young photographers who covered the last years of apartheid, taking many of the most memorable photographs of the period. An immensely powerful, riveting and harrowing book, and an invakuable contribution to the literary genre of war photography., An eye-opening book for readers of Susan Sontag. It tells the story of four remarkable young men, the stresses, tensions and moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme violence, pain and suffering, the relationships between the four and the story of the end of apartheid. Ken, the oldest and a mentor to the others, died, accidentally shot while working Kevin, the most troubled of the four, committed suicide weeks after winning his Pulitzer for a photograph of a starving baby in the Sudanese famine., Written by Greg and Joao, The Bang-Bang Club tells their uniquely powerful war stories.
Two of them won Pulitzer Prizes for individual photos.
The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young war photographers, friends and colleagues: Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, war correspondants during the last years of apartheid, who took many of the photographs that encapsulate the final violent years of racist white South Africa.
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