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Sarajevo

Title: Sarajevo / photographs by Tom Stoddart ; text by Predrag Matvejević ; [translated from the Italian by Renata Treitel].
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.

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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

In 1992 British photojournalist Tom Stoddart was gravely wounded in Sarajevo, but he returned to the besieged city during the grueling winter of 1993 to record the plight of its remaining citizens in their daily efforts to survive destruction, bereavement, and fear. Portraying not frontline fighters but the ordinary citizens who endured the brunt of the siege, the images created by Stoddart during his two visits convey the trauma of war in the faces and gestures of those forced to assimilate it into their daily lives. Women carrying shopping bags run for cover across an intersection that became known as Sniper Alley; a cellist breaks down in tears after performing a requiem for a dead friend; a burnt, disfigured boy, injured by a mortar while playing near his home, waits quietly in an emergency room. Stoddart's photographs also show Sarajevans carrying on with their lives, combatting their apprehension and grief, picking their way through shattered streets. An essay by a leading Bosnian writer sets the siege of Sarajevo in the context of a war based on deep religious and ethnic fissures and exacerbated by international indifference. But the photographs themselves, while depicting tragedy, are testament to the resiliency and courage of those who faced its brutality every day.

Series Statement

[Motta photography series]

Uniform Title

Motta photography series.

Subject

Genre/Form

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Pictorial works.
Bildband
Ouvrages illustrés.

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Series statement on jacket.

ISBN

1560987960
9781560987963

LCCN

97043809

OCLC

ocm37955531
37955531
SCSB-360554

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library