FAREWELL TO BOSNIA (NEW STILL IN SHRINK-WRAP)
.jpg)
Gilles Peress
FAREWELL TO BOSNIA (NEW STILL IN SHRINK-WRAP)
Photographs: Gilles Peress
Publisher: SCALO
168 pages
Year: 1994
Price: 150 €
Comments: Illustrated hardcover, 37 x 28 cm, first edition, b&w photographs. Design by Gilles Peress and Yolanda Cuomo. (NEW STILL IN SHRINK-WRAP)
Gilles Peress bears testimony to the brutality and devastation of the 1990s Balkan conflict
Farewell to Bosnia covers a period of almost six months during 1993, focusing primarily on the areas of Tuzla, central Bosnia, Mostar and Sarajevo. The work was initiated by Francois Hers, who was familiar with Peress’s ongoing project about the reemerging patterns of hate and discrimination in Europe – Hate Thy Brother – and who, because of his contacts in Bosnia, felt the urgency to have a visual documentation of what was happening in the Balkans. Peress set out to provide an illustrated continuum of experience and existence, and only having a small period of time could not explain everything that was occurring in Bosnia; not the historical intricacies of the breakup, nor the weight of blood that soaked the region.
In a sense then, Farewell to Bosnia is a raw take, a ‘non-edit’, and the straightforward presentation of the pictures – entire villages in ruins, refugees fleeing, mass graves uncovered – strike the viewer with a force that is both quietly unnerving and forcibly brutal. No one can leave this book without being moved by what was witnessed, least of all Peress himself. As he writes, “Here starts the curse of history, an illness that may not be so personal anymore. It may be a very European disease, after all, with a double-edged nature: you are damned if you remember – condemned to re-live, re-enact the images of your fathers; you are damned if you don’t – condemned to repeat their hypocrisy.”
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
more books by Gilles Peress
more books tagged »war« | >> see all
-
Geisterbild (Signed)
by Stéphane Duroy
Euro 45 -
Why Mister why ? Iraq 2003-2004
by Geert van Kesteren
sold -
I want to take picture (signed)
by Bill Burke
sold -
hello camel (SIGNED)
by Christoph Bangert
Euro 40 -
FAIT
by Sophie Ristelhueber
sold -
Rostock Ritz
by Eva Leitolf
Euro 50
more books tagged »documentary« | >> see all
-
La Spezia Dentro
by Matteo Signanini
sold -
The Jewel Coast
by Takashi Hamaguchi
Euro 45 -
Feste religiose in Sicilia
by Fernando Scianna
sold -
Exils
by Josef Koudelka
sold -
Narcotic Photographic Document
by Kazuo Kenmochi
sold -
Ray's a laugh
by Richard Billingham
sold
more books tagged »bosnia« | >> see all
more books tagged »scalo« | >> see all
-
The Silver Cord
by David Armstrong
sold -
Case history
by Boris Mikhailov
sold -
Ray's a laugh
by Richard Billingham
sold -
Ray's a laugh
by Richard Billingham
sold -
CASE HISTORY (SIGNED)
by Boris Mikhailov
sold -
London Wales
by Robert Frank
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com