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Author: Michelle Bogre
ISBN : 0240812751
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You want to look through the lens of your camera and change the world. You want to capture powerful moments in one click that will impact the minds of other people. Photographic images are one of the most popular tools used to advocate for social and environmental awareness. This can be as close to home as drug use, prostitution, or pollution or as far away as famine, war, and the plight of refugees and migrant workers. One well-known example of an activist photographer would be landscape photographer Ansel Adams, who trudged to Washington with stunning images of the American west to advocate protecting these areas. His images and testimony were instrumental in creating the National Park System and garnering specific protection for Yellowstone National Park. More recently Robert Glenn Ketchum's images of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge raised awareness of why this area should be protected. Nigel Barker's seal photographs advocates against seal clubbing. What is your cause and how can you use your camera to make the world a better place?
This book provides a comprehensive theory of, and history of, photography as activism. It also includes interviews with contemporary photographers. It is a call to action for young photographers to become activists, a primer of sorts, with advice for how to work with NGOs and non-profits, how to work safely in conflict zones and with suggestions for distribution on websites, blogs, and interactive agencies.
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- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (September 19, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0240812751
- ISBN-13: 978-0240812755
- Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 8.8 inches
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Michelle Bogre's volume on activist photography is a "just right" introduction to this fascinating subject. The book has a high word-to-picture ratio for a "photography" book, and is not about the technical side of the subject. There are no recommendations on cameras to use, technique to employ, how to pack to go to Africa, etc. Instead, in plain language, Ms. Bogre defines "activist photography," a distinct subset of documentary photography in which the photographer often freely admits their work is not simply objective journalism. Instead, many of these photographers consider themselves advocates as belied by the sub-title of the book: "Images for Social Change."
At just over 160 pages, this is not a thick book, though it covers a lot of ground tracing the history of activist photography from its very beginning to Matthew Brady, Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, the FSA photographers, W. Eugene Smith, and on to today with a profile of Sabastiao Salgado and interviews with many of the best and brightest in this field. The featured photos have been chosen with care to illustrate points and are beautiful and harrowing - often at the same time. One of the photographers profiled, for example, is Jonathan Torgovnik, whose project on Tutsi women who survived rape during the mass genocide in Rwanda in 1994, and the children born to them as a result of those rapes, is about as powerful as anything I've ever seen or read. One of his hauntingly sad, yet amazingly beautiful, pictures graces the cover of the book.
The book closes with resources including magazines, websites, organizations, festivals and short bios of photographers - basically places you can go on the internet or in person to learn more, see more, and get funding if you want to go that far.
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