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Dark Odyssey
by Murray Sayle ; Philip Jones Griffiths
ISBN: 0893816450
ISBN-13: 9780893816452
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Images by a 40-year veteran of photojournalism who specializes in documenting history as it happens.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc
Published date: 1996
Size: 9.75 x 13.5 inches
Weight: 4 pounds
Pages: 165
Publisher's Notes
Philip Jones Griffiths, one of this century's master photographers, is unparalleled at creating relentlessly perceptive images that encompass the beauty, the atrocities, the ceremonies, the moments of brutality and compassion that coalesce as history. Griffiths's eagerly anticipated retrospective Dark Odyssey traces his forty-year journey through this chaotic world, from the wide horizon of his native Wales to the ravaged villages of war-torn Vietnam, in more than one hundred astounding black-and-white photographs. In each of his pictures, Griffiths creates a complex diagram of meaning and emotion. The collision of culture and ideology is often the basis of the work - sometimes in a simple pairing of figures, sometimes in a dizzying throng of life: the arresting, straightforward gazes of a Vietnamese child and her war-disfigured mother; the dazed face of a woman lost among the multitude of graves at a cemetery in Hiroshima; the wicked glee of a boy about to hurl a boulder into a grand piano, outside under an ominously dark sky. Griffiths's photographs tackle love, death, frivolity, politics, violence...they comment - ironically and profoundly - on virtually every aspect of human life, offering a gripping and unforgettable view of both the devastations and the beauties of our era.
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Griffiths, Philip Jones - Photographs; Introduction by Murray Sayle
Aperture, 1996. Hardcover. First edition Very Good with a 1 inch bump to the top on one board in a Good, shelf worn DJ with a closed tear and peeling laminate. Remains of price sticker to rear. Light remainder mark. 192 pages; 113 duo-tone plates; 9.5 x 13; index. Out of Print. A 40-year retrospective of the Magnum photographer's front line work. Not many better photojournalists. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. All books over $50 insured. Careful packaging. ( more information) Offered by A&D Books (United States)
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Griffiths, Philip Jones - Photographs; Introduction by Murray Sayle
Aperture, 1996. Hardcover. First edition Very Good with a ding to one board and light edge wear in a Good, shelf worn DJ with a chips and peeling laminate. Light remainder mark. Security bar code on back of rear flap. 192 pages; 113 duo-tone plates; 9.5 x 13; index. Out of Print. A 40-year retrospective of the Magnum photographer's front line work. Not many better photojournalists. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. All books over $50 insured. Careful packaging. ( more information) Offered by A&D Books (United States)
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Sayle, Murray // Griffiths, Philip Jones
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Aperture, 1996 181pp + pictorial index: A survey of the career work of Philip Jones Griffiths, from his boyhood Wales to Vietnam. Very fine, stark work, many arresting in their power. A very fine copy. First Edition. Pictorial Board. Very Fine/Fine. ( more information) Offered by McLean Arts & Books (United States)
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Griffiths,Philip Jones. Intro by Murray Sayle
As New in As New DJ.1st edition,1st printing.Not clipped (55.00) 180 b&w photos Photography Aperture 1996 1st edition. Coffee Table Folio, unpaged, 1st edition,1st printing with no markings.Not remaindered.No names. ( more information) Offered by Enterprise Books (United States)
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Griffiths, Philip Jones - Photographs; Introduction by Murray Sayle
Aperture, 1996 Illustrated boards First edition Near Fine with some light wear along the bottom boards and a light bump to one tip and light mark to top of text block in Near Fine Dust Jacket with light wear along the bottom edges and at the top of the spine. One short closed tear. 192 pages; 113 duo-tone plates; 9.5 x 13 inches; index. SIGNED BY GRIFFITHS. Dust Wrapper protected in Mylar. Cartier-Bresson refers to Griffiths photography by stating Ònot since Goya has anyone portrayed war like Philip Jones GriffithsÓ. ��A 40-year retrospective of Magnum photographer Griffiths' front line work. Not many better photo-journalists. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. All books over $50 insured. Careful packaging. ( more information) Offered by A&D Books (United States)
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Sayle, Murray
Aperture, 1996. Hardcover. New. Near fine in publisher's boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. ( more information) Offered by The Book Annex Limited (United Kingdom)
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