It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (583 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00SYNWZBC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 213 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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In the man who will become her husband, she finds at last a real love to complement her work, not take away from it, and as a new mother she gains an even more intensely personal understanding of the fragility of life. Rather than choose between her personal life and profession, Addario learns to strike a necessary balance. She exposes a culture of violence against women in the Congo and tells the riveting inside story of her headline-making kidnapping by pro-Qaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war. Addario finds in photography a way to travel with a purpose, and It's What I Do is the story of that singular calling--how it shapes and drives her life and how it changes the lives of others. As a woman photojournalist determined to be taken as seriously as her male peers, Addario fights her way into a boys' club of a profession. She makes a decision she will often find herself making--not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but to set out across the world, face the chaos of crisis, and make a name for herself. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion. Lynsey Addario is just finding her way as a young photographer when the events of September 11, 2001, change the world. Watching u
Bernard Goldbach said Gritty Single-Minded Determination from Cover to Cover. As a former military pilot, I've flown photojournos and network television crews into remote areas where they survived hostile fire. Lynsey Addario's story suggests she would have been aboard one of my missions. Her memoir resonates authenticity through and through. She writes with an impassioned honesty that instills credibility to the stories she shares.I wonder if Lynsey reali. Addario's perspective is an interesting and valuable one. However Jennifer Bean Addario's perspective is an interesting and valuable one. However, there is something disengaged about her style that left me wanting to feel more connected to her story, and at times it was a challenge to stay motivated to read. The desire she has for the reader to see her work and the work of her fellow journalists as significant (which it is!) and their sacrifice as powerful (. " How often have we read the work of an excellent journalist only to be shocked by a photograph from We all grasp the notion that "a picture is worth a thousand words." How often have we read the work of an excellent journalist only to be shocked by a photograph from the scene that utterly improves our understanding of what we've read? Somebody had to go there with a camera to capture that picture -- to show our eyes what they were seeing with their eyes -- to grant us the vital