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"Required reading if you want to know what real journalism is all about." -- "TLS"
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Like many photographers of his ilk, he set out hoping that the pictures he took might make a difference, might make people and governments think twice about the things they do. Perhaps more than anything else, the British Government's refusal to allow him to go to the Falklands - preferring instead to send three million Mars Bars - left him with the feeling that it doesn't make a lot of difference in the end, and that, perhaps, his life has marked him rather than the world he tried to educate through his pictures.
This book is a must for anyone contemplating a career along McCullin's lines, perhaps it will make them think twice before exposing themselves needlessly to danger. It is also a must for anyone who wants to see the man behind the images that documented so much of the late Twentieth Century's most significant events. His writing style is as compelling as his images, and this book is as a result moving, and difficult to put down.
Unlike John Simpson's hedonistic autobiography of his life hopping between the earth's hotspots, McCullin dashes past the glorifying clichés of foreign correspondence and portrays the harsh reality of a life under constant pressure, whether it be the initial social stigma of being of an inferior class within the media sector, the fear experienced as incoming artillery comes whistling towards him, or being locked up in a foreign prison, where death lurks around every corner.
This is McCullin's way of exorcising the demons of a life filled with frightful images that most of us merely glance at from time to time, and acknowledges this in the final chapter. Although McCullin does not delve as deep into the psyche as Anthony Loyd's memoir "My War Gone By, I Miss It So", this book rates as being one of the most sincere epistles of life on the front-line as I have experienced.
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