iWITNESS [Hardcover]

Tom Stoddart (Author), Bob Geldof (Author), Jean-Francois Leroy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2, 2004

As one of the world's most respected photojournalists, Tom Stoddart has brought us intensely personal images from across the globe, documenting nearly every major event of the past 20 years that has afflicted human kind. War, famine, AIDS: these are just some of the human plights he has captured, with his unique ability to see the world in peril whilst refusing to believe that human beings can only exist in conflict with each other and their surroundings.

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About the Author

Tom Stoddart began his photographic career with a provincial newspaper in his native North East of England. In 1978 he moved to London and, working freelance, started to regularly supply national newspapers and magazines

Product Details

• Hardcover: 356 pages
• Publisher: Trolley (November 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904563295
• ISBN-13: 978-1904563297
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 9.8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,677,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars IWITNESS, December 23, 2009

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Michael Marcon (australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iWITNESS (Hardcover)

great book thats helps to put our problems into perspective and understand how fortunate we are.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding book - buy it!!, October 10, 2004

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A reader in north London (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: iWITNESS (Hardcover)

This is an outstanding documentation of humanitarian crises by one of the world's best photojournalists. Stoddart's photos are truly moving - yet never sensational. Rather they reveal to us the quiet dignity of the human spirit in some of the most atrocious situations possible, famine, floods, ethnic cleansing, war, earthquakes etc. In all of his pictures it is the human spirit which shines through. It's impossible to look at these pictures passively, and difficult at times not to be moved to tears.

This book is a call for us to heighten our awareness of what's happening in the world today, away from cosy armchairs and the madness of, and obsession with 'celebrity culture', to shake off our 'compassion fatigue' and take action while we still have some consciousness to prevent and alleviate such suffering. How can we live in the same world as these pictures and not want to do something to improve our common human journey?

Buy it as soon as you can, and share it!