November 05, 2007

The Highs and Lows...

Apropos of nothing really, a little plug for the Turnley brothers collection of war photography "In Times of War and Peace". I'm no authority by any stretch (though my wife is a photographer and charitably dispenses wisdom to me on matters photography on occasion) but find myself pulling this book off the shelf quite often. And as brutish and horrific as the scenes of carnage from varied global hot-spots, there is a reason the book mentions "peace" too. The Turnley's, I believe, are based in Paris (or at least were for a spell around the time this book was published), and book-end the grisly front-line scenes with some pics of repose and merriment on the Left Bank during off-time. But the vital core and huge majority of work here are the war pictures, truly a powerful series of photographs. Many in our derrieres-on-couch interventionist cheerleader class would benefit from a glance through, I suspect...

Posted by Gregory at November 5, 2007 11:03 PM