Isbn: 9781922545084 - atong atem - surat (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Photographs as medium of communication When I began my lifelong career as a journalist more than forty years ago, the first piece of advice my editor gave me was about the importance of photographs, emphasising the point by using the maxim that one photo was worth a thousand words. A news story without photos was regarded as lacking a sense of 'proof' that something had really happened. Two years later, after my colleagues and I were sent for training at a journalism school in Khartoum, photography was one of the subjects we all took. It was both theoretical and practical. It is with this in mind that I write in response to my daughter Atong Atem's work - forty years later and all the way in Australia - which combines family archives with self-portraits as a way of preserving our history. In the early 1980s, I became the head of the department of information for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). In that capacity, I was able to capture a photograph that made history in many ways. In June 1984, the rebel movement was g.…