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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
Ashley Gilbertson
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Description for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
Hardcover. Presents the story of the author's journey from hard-drinking bravado to the grave realism of a scarred survivor. This book describes his experience with post-traumatic stress disorder, and grapples with the reality that Iraq - despite the sacrifice in Iraqi and American lives - has descended into a civil war with no end in sight. Num Pages: 260 pages, 230 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; AJCR; HBJF1; HBLX; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1224.
Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U.S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America's military triumph as looting and score-settling convulsed Iraqi cities. Just twenty-five years old at the time, Gilbertson soon landed a contract with the "New York Times", and his extraordinary images of life in occupied Iraq and of American troops in action began appearing in the paper regularly. Throughout his work, Gilbertson took great risks to document the risks taken by others, whether dodging ... Read more
Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U.S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America's military triumph as looting and score-settling convulsed Iraqi cities. Just twenty-five years old at the time, Gilbertson soon landed a contract with the "New York Times", and his extraordinary images of life in occupied Iraq and of American troops in action began appearing in the paper regularly. Throughout his work, Gilbertson took great risks to document the risks taken by others, whether dodging ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226293257
SKU
V9780226293257
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About Ashley Gilbertson
Ashley Gilbertson was born in Australia and lives in New York City. His photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, U.S. News and World Report, and other publications. Among numerous honors, Gilbertson won the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal for his photographs of the battle of Falluja and was named the National Photographer of ... Read more
Reviews for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
"Ashley Gilbertson, a gifted and fearless photographer, has plunged into this darkest and most ferocious of battle-grounds and found beauty and horror and honor and truth. Scan the faces captured in these pages, of Iraqis and Americans, and of the predicaments they have found themselves in, and see and feel - in your gut - what it really means to ... Read more