Research Catalog

Title

What matters : the world's preeminent photojournalists and thinkers depict essential issues of our time / created by David Elliot Cohen.

Publication

New York : Sterling, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cohen, David, 1955-

Description

335 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

Contains eighteen photoessays in which photojournalists investigate some of the most important issues confronting the world in the early twenty-first century, including climate change, AIDS, environmental degradation, and genocide, and includes commentary, resources, Web links, and suggestions on how to become involved.

Subjects

• Social problems > Pictorial works
• Social history > 21st century > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works.
• Pictorial works.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-330) and index.

Contents

Introduction : photographs that can change the world / by David Elliot Cohen -- Man vs. Earth -- Meltdown : a global warming travelogue / photographed by Gary Braasch ; written by Bill McKibben -- Economic miracle, environmental disaster : the degradation of the Huai River Valley / photographed by Stephen Voss ; written by Elizabeth C. Economy -- Thirsty world : the desperate everyday quest for safe water / photographed by Brent Stirton ; written by Petr H. Gleick -- Fallout : the enduring tragedy of Chernobyl / photographed by Gerd Ludwig ; written by David R. Marples -- Man vs. man -- Images of genocide : how should we respond? / photographed by Magnum ; written by Omer Bartov -- The scorched earth of Darfur : the twenty-first century's first genocide / photographed by Marcus Bleasdale ; cowritten by Samantha Power, Anna Lindh, and John Prendergast -- Global jihad : before and after 9/11 / photographed by The Associated Press ; written by Fawaz A. Gerges -- Bitter fruit : behind the scenes, America buries its Iraq War dead / photographed by Paul Fusco ; written by Gary Kamiya -- The distribution of wealth -- The bottom billion : how we can end global poverty / photographed by James Nachtwey ; written by Jeffrey D. Sachs -- Shop 'til we drop : consumer culture in the new gilded age / photographed by Lauren Greenfield ; written by Juliet B. Schor -- Children of the black dust : child labor in Bangladesh / photographed and written by Shehzad Noorani -- Lost girls : the child brides of Afghanistan, Nepal and Ethiopia / photographed by Stephanie Sinclair ; written by Judith Bruce -- The price of our oil addiction : scenes from the Niger river delta / photographed by Ed Kashi ; written by Michael Watts -- The greatest migration : the third world moves to the city / photographed by Sebastião Salgado ; written by Paul Knox -- The fence : deconstructing America's "immigration crisis" / photographed by Anthony Suau ; written by Douglas S. Massey -- Man vs. disease -- Infected or affected : curing AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa / photographed by Tom Stoddart ; written by Helen Epstein -- The end of malaria? : rolling back a killer / photographed by Maggie Hallahan ; written by Awa Marie Coll-Seck -- What one person can do : the amazing life of Abdul Sattar Edhi / photographed by Shahidul Alam ; written by Richard Covington -- What you can do : 193 ways to learn more and get involved -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781402758348
• 1402758340

LCCN

2008011116

OCLC

• ocn213600009
• 213600009
• SCSB-1501416

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library