War photography

Art historian Ian Jeffrey has sifted through WWII soldier albums and selected the most compelling photos to create a record of lives that have seen the unprecedented. Style & content of the photographs changed along with the collective mood after 1942.

This book runs completely under the radar; for me it belongs in every good sorted photo journalistic library. While researches for a new image motif in art/photography of the early 20th century the editor collected interesting, often unknown material.

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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 2 x 2 cm. (10.2 x 8.7 x 1.4 in.), 184 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: English / German

'Lee Miller in Fashion' examines how the modeling career affected Lee MILLER's life and connected with the history of fashion of the late 1920s and early 1950s: as the backbone of her creative development and an important focal point.

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.

In this photo book on the war in former Yugoslavia, Gilles PERESS meticulously examines the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar. The shockingly factual photographs show the forensic team and what they discovered, 'Graves' is a passionate plea for justice.

The book 'Farewell to Bosnia' by Gilles PERESS is a 'non-edit', the direct presentation of the images - entire villages in ruins, refugees fleeing, mass graves uncovered - hits the viewer with a force that is both quietly disturbing and violently brutal.