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Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War by Deborah Copaken Kogan , hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780375503641
- Book Title
- Shutterbabe : Adventures in Love and War
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Photography, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Individual Photographers / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 20.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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What if the protagonist in that age-old tale-boy goes to war, comes back a man-were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl from Potomac, Maryland, who goes off to photograph wars and comes back, four years and one too many adventures later, a woman. In 1988, fresh out of Harvard, Kogan moved to Paris with a small backpack, a couple of cameras, the hubris of a superhero, and a strong thirst for danger. She wanted to see what a war would look like when seen from up close, to immerse herself in a world where the gun is God. Naïvely, she figured it would be easy to filter death through the prism of her wide-angle lens. She was dead wrong. Within weeks of arriving in Paris, after knocking on countless photo agency doors and begging to be sent where the action was, Kogan found herself on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, her tiny frame veiled from head to toe, the only woman - and the only journalis - in a convoy of rebel freedom fighters. Kogan had not actually planned on shooting the Afghan war alone. However, the beguiling French photographer she'd entrusted with both her itinerary and her heart turned out to be as dangerously unpredictable as, well, a war. It is the saga of both her relationship with this French-man and her assignment in Afghanistan that fuels the first of Shutterbabe's six page-turning chapters, each covering a different corner of the globe and each ultimately linked to the man Kogan was involved with at the time. From Zim-babwe to Romania, from Russia to Haiti, Kogan takes her readers on a heartbreaking yet surprisingly hilarious journey through a mine-strewn decade, her personal battles against sexism, battery, and even rape blending seamlessly with the historical struggles of war, revolution, and unfathomable abuse it was her job to record. In the end, what was once adventurous to the girl began to weigh heavily on the woman. Though her photographs were often splashed across the front pages of international newspapers and magazines, though she was finally accepted into photojournalism's macho fraternity, with each new assignment, with each new affair, Kogan began to feel there was something more she was after. Ultimately, what she discovered in herself was a person -- a woman - for whom life, not death, is the one true adventure to be cherished above all.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375503641
ISBN-13
9780375503641
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1743738
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shutterbabe : Adventures in Love and War
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Photographers / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Photography, Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
20.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tr140.K64a3 2000
Reviews
"Shutterbabeis the rarest of all memoirs: a book by someone with the courage and passion to live an extraordinary life and the grace and wit to write meaningfully about it." - Malcolm Gladwell, author ofThe Tipping Point "A wise and unforgettable book, written with courage and love and intelligence and humility and humor by a remarkable woman who, through hard searching and a compassionate heart, has found all the right words with which to tell her extraordinary life." - John Burnham Schwartz, author ofReservation Road "A riveting account of one woman's journey through the minefields of love and photojournalism." - Robert Stevens, photo editor,Time "A candid, sexy, and very funny romp that makes photojournalism seem like an X-treme sport. Deborah Copaken Kogan goes out and wrings enough terrifying heroics from the last bits of the twentieth century to make T. E. Lawrence jealous." - John Hockenberry, author ofMoving Violations "Not since Margaret Bourke-White has a woman lived in such danger, documented it so fully, and immersed herself so fiercely in the entanglements of love. Here is a mesmerizing, honest, personal drama unfolding right on the edge of political violence." - Katie Roiphe, author ofThe Morning After
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
00-038179
Dewey Decimal
070.4/9/092
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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