- Hardcover: 210 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books (7 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0811815862
- ISBN-13: 978-0811815864
- Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 21.2 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 79,594 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book has been written up almost everywhere, around the world, in local newspapers, and international publications. Here are a few of the reviews, each reflecting on the profundity of Dan Eldon's story.
By Peter Canby
Dan Eldon was only twenty-two when, at the height of conflict in Somalia, he and three other journalists were chased down by a mob enraged at a United Nations helicopter attack and stoned to death. The year was 1993. Eldon was among the first to document the famine in Somalia; he had risen rapidly through the ranks of war photographers, with spreads in "Time, Newsweek, "and "Stern." But, as "The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon" shows, he was an artist as well. The son of an English father and an American mother, he grew up in Nairobi, where he became fascinated by the mixture of European and African cultures and learned to speak fluent Swahili. At fifteen, he began recording his life in a series of eclectic, exuberantly collaged journals, which incorporate everything from his own drawings and paintings to stamps, matchbook covers, photographs of his friends, and self-portraits.
By the time Eldon died, he had compiled seventeen journals, the last of which -- according to his mother, Kathy, who edited the published selection -- consisted, uncharacteristically, of his Somalia photographs mounted on plain white paper. Eldon was a popular figure in Somalia, but he'd become depressed by seeing the Africa he loved crumbling around him. In one of his journals he quotes Plato: "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Lest the Picture Fade
By Joshua Hammer
For Kathy Eldon the trip was the climax of a four-year obsession. On a blazingly hot day, last September, Eldon, her daughter, Amy, a television crew and 40 Somali bodyguards rode through the streets of Mogadishu to the rubble of a large cinder-block house. Here, on July 12, 1993, a U.N. helicopter fired missiles into a group of suspected aide
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Dan Eldon lived more in 22 years than most people do in 80y. He traveled through four continents, led expeditions across Africa, wrote a book, worked as a graphic designer in New York, made a film, and became a respected photojournalist -- all before his sudden, violent death in Somalia. This is no ordinary diary; it is an astonishing collage of photographs, drawings, words, maps, clippings, paints, scraps, shards, and trash that reveals his strange and vivid life. The wild trips and weird places, the lovers and late nights, the danger and fun are captured in pages that seem to shiver with passion, opinion, and dark humor. Eldon's journal holds up a pure mirror to both the sickness of the modern world and the fragile happiness of the human condition, and ultimately, reveals the accidental beauty that only a young artist can truly capture.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a reproduction of the artist's "notebooks", which consist of his wonderful photographs, cut and pasted with almost anything and everything: tickets, ads, random bits of newspaper, drawings, text, etc. These notebooks were an apparently deeply personal work by Eldon, documenting his journeys in Africa, where he grew up, and for the most part, lived. The bittersweet part of this tale is that Eldon died young, at the hands of an angry mob, while sympathetically documenting their rage. Published posthumously by Eldon's mother, the notebooks evince that Eldon lived beautifully for the short time he was here. Among the most moving pieces of art I've seen. You'll want to give one to all your friends. Do.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Dan Eldon was a photographer for Reuters in Somalia during the early nineties, one of the youngest to take such a presitgious position, and this book is an edited collection of his journals - eclectic collages of photographs, paint, tickets and thoughts. Killed in Mogadishu in 1993 by a mob made angry by recent bombings, he left a legacy of such journals behind. This is a haunting and visionary book which deserves to be in every bookcase.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
My tutor brought this book in to show us all. The book is amazing, it shows his thoughts and ideas but it is done in a way that is personal to him. Every page is exciting, the clever way he has used paint or the way he has took a photo and changed it. It is a tragic story what happened to him but the outcome is truly a wonderful and inspiring book.
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I love it!
When this item arrived I loved it straight away, its stunning. I've even cut a few pages out of the journal and stuck them on my bedroom wall, it looks very arty and people have... Read more
Published 11 months ago by A23
Leaving the comfort zone
Any young person with the slightest inclination to adventure should have a copy of Dan Eldon's The Journey is the Destination. You don't read this book. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Bnommensen
Inspiring a whole generation of creative activists
Thank you Dan!
There is so much richness and wonder to be found among the pages of this book. Read more
There is so much richness and wonder to be found among the pages of this book. Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2009 by Mrs. K. Thompson
fantastic.
I've spent hours looking at this book... it is utterly amazing. each and every page is incredibly presented and impossible to ignore. Read more
Published on 11 July 2004
inspirational
The book is captivating - overlain with photographs, drawings, text, beads, coins, everything Eldon was touched by. It is magical, emotive and exciting.
Published on 5 Mar 2002
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