Don McCullin - Open Skies

1st edition published by Jonathan Cape, 1989

Format: Softcover, 265x220

Pages: 70

Condition: Good. Some signs of use/age

Don McCullin, the most celebrated photojournalist of our time, whose searing images of the human side of war have become indelibly imprinted in the minds of people the world over, now trains his camera on the English coutryside. McCullin, who in twenty years photographed the ravages of no fewer than 12 wars, sees beneath the peaceful surface of rural England something other than tranquility. The settings have changed dramatically, but McCullin is still "an uneasy spirit," writes John Fowles, not only scarred by so many wars, but now filled with foreboding about the fate of the environment. In fact, asserts Fowles, McCullin hasn't given up war photography at all: "The most terrible and senseless conflict facing mankind at the moment is between man and his own environment, between human and other nature." Throughout his career, Don McCullin has made an art of unsettling the complacent and the willfully unknowing. These haunting images, reflections in the eye of a photographer who has seen the greatest damage that man can inflict upon man, are chilling reminders of our environment as well."