Iraq

Inspired by military manuals, American ex-soldier Ben Brody's diary-like photo book 'Attention Servicemember' is a passionate exploration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For his volume 'Wall and Peace', Kai WIEDENHÖFER has documented walls and barrier fences all over the world: in Berlin, Belfast, Mexico, Ceuta & Melilla, in Baghdad and the wall on the border line with the West Bank, with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt.

In out-of-print volume 'This is War' Moises SAMAN shows what war really means: pain, destruction, darkness. The images are far from that reality that today's media present in the form of hypertechnical video games, as shiny and manipulated TV productions.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 20,5 cm., 96 pp., 40 color ills., English

'The Land in Between', Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG is about the bond between landscape & civilization. Areas of past historical importance show how conflict, destruction & decay transforms landscapes in Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen & Syria

The mono.kultur issue #37 is dedicated to US-american photojournalist & war reporter James NACHTWEY. One issue consists of photographs, the other of an interview, reproduced in English, about the reality of wars and how images can bring about resistance.

'Hello Camel' by Christoph BANGERT documents the bitter absurdity of war in Afghanistan, Gaza, Darfur, Lebanon and Iraq. He contrasts the clichéd notion of modern war as a fast-paced, dramatic and heroic event with calm and tidy, strange and alien images.

The photo book 'Wounded. The Legacy of War' by Bryan ADAMS contains portraits of young British servicemen and women who returned wounded from Iraq or Afghanistan or were wounded during exercises. Accompanying interviews shed light on each individual fate.

This portrait photo compendium, 'Mapping. Sitting' by Karl Bassil, Zeina Maasri and Akram Zaatariin cooperation with Walid RAAD contains 905 photographs from Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine and Jordan, taken between 1920s and 1970s.

The book 'Silk Road. 1956-1974' deals with the journeys of Emilia 'Milli' BAU with a wealth of images and text material from three decades. She traveled the Middle and Far East; the pictures and the diary-like texts describe what she saw and experienced.