出版社: Penguin Press
副标题: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
出版年: 2015-2-5
页数: 368
定价: USD 29.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781594205378
内容简介 · · · · · ·
"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review)
War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the co...
"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review)
War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It’s her work, but it’s much more than that: it’s her singular calling.
Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young photographer when September 11 changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion. She makes a decision she would often find herself making—not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but to set out across the world, face the chaos of crisis, and make a name for herself.
Addario finds a way to travel with a purpose. She photographs the Afghan people before and after the Taliban reign, the civilian casualties and misunderstood insurgents of the Iraq War, as well as the burned villages and countless dead in Darfur. She exposes a culture of violence against women in the Congo and tells the riveting story of her headline-making kidnapping by pro-Qaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war.
Addario takes bravery for granted but she is not fearless. She uses her fear and it creates empathy; it is that feeling, that empathy, that is essential to her work. We see this clearly on display as she interviews rape victims in the Congo, or photographs a fallen soldier with whom she had been embedded in Iraq, or documents the tragic lives of starving Somali children. Lynsey takes us there and we begin to understand how getting to the hard truth trumps fear.
As a woman photojournalist determined to be taken as seriously as her male peers, Addario fights her way into a boys’ club of a profession. Rather than choose between her personal life and her career, Addario learns to strike a necessary balance. In the man who will become her husband, she finds at last a real love to complement her work, not take away from it, and as a new mother, she gains an all the more intensely personal understanding of the fragility of life.
Watching uprisings unfold and people fight to the death for their freedom, Addario understands she is documenting not only news but also the fate of society. It’s What I Do is more than just a snapshot of life on the front lines; it is witness to the human cost of war.
Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month for February 2015: “Why do you do this?” is the central question Lynsey Addario answers in her new memoir It’s What I Do—and she asks it not just for the reader, but it seems for herself. Addario is a MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient and was part of the team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (covering the Taliban in Afghanistan with Dexter Filkins ) but her story often underscores her insecurities in her profession and personal life. Even with her numerous accolades, she worries about being forgotten, missing the breaking story and not being taken seriously as a woman. It’s a frank, and refreshingly, candid look into a successful professional photojournalist at the top of her game but it never romanticizes the risks that are necessary to bring us her images. Her story is inspiring, heartbreaking and an eye opening look at what it takes to reveal events from the other side of the world. –Amy Huff
Review
Kirkus (starred review):
“A remarkable journalistic achievement from a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winner that crystalizes the last 10 years of global war and strife while candidly portraying the intimate life of a female photojournalist. Told with unflinching candor, the award-winning photographer brings an incredible sense of humanity to all the battlefields of her life. Especially affecting is the way in which Addario conveys the role of gender and how being a woman has impacted every aspect of her personal and professional lives. Whether dealing with ultrareligious zealots or overly demanding editors, being a woman with a camera has never been an easy task. A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir that is as inspiring as it is horrific.”
Publishers Weekly:
“A highly readable and thoroughly engaging memoir…. Addario’s memoir brilliantly succeeds not only as a personal and professional narrative but also as an illuminating homage to photojournalism’s role in documenting suffering and injustice, and its potential to influence public opinion and official policy.”
Booklist:
“Addario has written a page-turner of a memoir describing her war coverage and why and how she fell into—and stayed in—such a dangerous job. This ‘extraordinary profession’—though exhilarating and frightening, it ‘feels more like a commitment, a responsibility, a calling’—is what she does, and the many photographs scattered throughout this riveting book prove that she does it magnificently.”
Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes and Enemies:
“It’s What I Do is as brilliant as Addario’s pictures—and she’s the greatest photographer of our war-torn time. She’s been kidnapped, nearly killed, while capturing truth and beauty in the world’s worst places. She’s a miracle. So is this book.”
Dexter Filkins, author of The Forever War:
“Lynsey Addario’s book is like her life: big, beautiful, and utterly singular. With the whole world as her backdrop, Addario embarks on an extraordinary adventure whose overriding effect is to remind of us what unites us all.”
Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Fall of Baghdad:
“A gifted chronicler of her life and times, Lynsey Addario stands at the forefront of her generation of photojournalists, young men and women who have come of age during the brutal years of endless war since 9/11. A uniquely driven and courageous woman, Addario is also possessed of great quantities of humor and humanity. It’s What I Do is the riveting, unforgettable account of an extraordinary life lived at the very edge.”
John Prendergast, founding director of the Enough Project:
“A life as a war photographer has few parallels in terms of risk and reward, fear and courage, pain and promise. Lynsey Addario has seen, experienced, and photographed things that most of us cannot imagine. The brain and heart behind her extraordinary photographic eye pulls us inexorably closer to the center of each story she pursues, no matter what the cost or danger.”
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Lynsey Addario (born 1973) is an American photojournalist. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies.
She graduated from Staples High School, in Westport, Connecticut, in 1991. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1995. She began photographing professionally in 1996 at at the Buenos ...
Lynsey Addario (born 1973) is an American photojournalist. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies.
She graduated from Staples High School, in Westport, Connecticut, in 1991. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1995. She began photographing professionally in 1996 at at the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina, and then began freelancing for the Associated Press, with Cuba as a focus.
In 2000, she photographed in Afghanistan under Taliban control. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, the Congo, and Haiti. She has covered stories throughout the Middle East and Africa. She has visited Darfur or neighboring Chad at least once a month from August 2004.
She has photographed for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic.
In Pakistan on May 9, 2009, Addario was involved in an automobile accident while returning to Islamabad from an assignment at a refugee camp. Her collar bone (clavicle) was broken, another journalist was injured, and the driver was killed.
Addario was one of four New York Times journalists who were missing in Libya from March 16–21, 2011. The New York Times reported on March 18, 2011 that Libya had agreed to free her and three colleagues: Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell and Tyler Hicks. The Libyan government released the four journalists on March 21, 2011. She reports that she was threatened with death and repeatedly groped during her captivity by the Libyan Army.
Addario told the press that "Physically we were blindfolded and bound. In the beginning, my hands and feet were bound very tightly behind our backs and my feet were tied with shoelaces. I was blindfolded most of the first three days, with the exception of the first six hours. I was punched in the face a few times and groped repeatedly." And "It was incredibly intense and violent. It was abusive throughout, both psychologically and physically. It was very chaotic and very aggressive. For me, there was a lot of groping right away. Sort of everyone who had to pick me up and carry me somewhere, they would reach around and grab my breasts and touch my butt--everyone who came near me.
In November 2011, The New York Times wrote a letter of complaint on behalf of Addario to the Israeli government, after allegations that Israeli soldiers at the Erez Crossing had strip-searched and mocked her and forced her to go through an X-ray scanner three times despite knowing that she was pregnant. Addario reported that she had "never, ever been treated with such blatant cruelty." The Israeli Defence ministry subsequently issued an apology to both Addario and The New York Times.
The extensive exhibition In Afghanistan at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway has her photos of Afghan women juxtaposed with Tim Hetherington's photographs from American soldiers in the Korengal Valley.
Addario is married to Paul de Bendern, a journalist with Reuters. They married in July 2009. They have one son, Lukas (B. 2011).
She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2009. Her work in Waziristan, Sept. 7, 2008, was part of work receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting. She won the Getty Images Grant for Editorial photography in 2008 for her work in Darfur. She received the Infinity Award in 2002 by the International Center of Photography.
目录 · · · · · ·
PART ONE. DISCOVERING THE WORLD: Connecticut, New York, Argentina, Cuba, India, Afghanistan
Chapter 1 No Second Chances in New York
Chapter 2 How Many Children Do You Have?
Chapter 3 We Are at War
PART TWO. THE 9/11 YEARS: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq
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PART ONE. DISCOVERING THE WORLD: Connecticut, New York, Argentina, Cuba, India, Afghanistan
Chapter 1 No Second Chances in New York
Chapter 2 How Many Children Do You Have?
Chapter 3 We Are at War
PART TWO. THE 9/11 YEARS: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq
Chapter 4 You, American, Are Not Welcome Here Anymore
Chapter 5 I Am Not as Worried About Bullets
Chapter 6 Please Tell the Woman We Will Not Hurt Her
PART THREE. A KIND OF BALANCE: Sudan, Congo, Istanbul, Afghanistan, Pakistan, France, Libya
Chapter 7 Women Are Casualties of Their Birthplace
Chapter 8 Do Your Work, and Come Back When You Finish
Chapter 9 The Most Dangerous Place in the World
Chapter 10 Driver Expire
PART FOUR. LIFE AND DEATH: Libya, New York, India, London
Chapter 11 You Will Die Tonight
Chapter 12 He Was a Brother I Miss Dearly
Chapter 13 I Would Advise You Not to Travel
Chapter 14 Lukas
Afterword: Return to Iraq
Acknowledgements
Index
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It's What I Do的书评 · · · · · · ( 全部 20 条 )
头也不回的选择一个自己的人生吧!
编辑手记:经历人性至恶,不忘人性美好
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策划编辑 海杜马 一个摄影图书编辑和摄影师都对这种战地摄影记者的题材并不陌生,一直以来,我都会关心这个领域的新闻、人物、作品、故事和历史。我一直觉得所谓战地记者的黄金时代应该是以二战、越战、巴以冲突和中东战争等为代表的那些年代——那时诞生了很多超级伟大的摄影... (展开)世界虽然残酷,依然活出自己的精彩
读书就是看看世上有人和你活得完全不一样
这就是战地记者的意义。关怀、勇敢、坚守、执着、信仰,舍生忘死勇往直前不过是为了追寻真相,用最惨烈悲痛的现实,去唤醒人性的柔软与善良。
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是自传也是纪实。作为一名见证者,作者的文字与摄影,很容易就触动每个人内心深处的柔软与勇敢。 作者作为一名接受美国自由思想教育的女性,她从小就独立自主、坚韧勇敢,为了追求自己的梦想,和父母预支自己的“嫁妆”来购买摄影设备,不断的磨炼自己,无论是技艺还是意志,一... (展开)生活不是拍电影。生活比电影复杂多了。
没有鸡汤,只有一个美国女性在战争中看到的现实
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0 有用 ZZ 2019-01-10 22:38:42
文字和影像完美的结合。很难想象作者经历了这么多。前半本书拿再手里都文字,后半本听的有声书,朗读者打破了前半本书的沉重感,有更多的笔墨描写她的个人生活,因为的确是有了重大的决定和改变。在Instagram上follow她,看她现在的拍摄,不乏是一种跟上脚步。
0 有用 瞬·间 2018-02-26 16:39:13
It's not a job you do just for living. The work defines who you are. The work is your life.
0 有用 hurley 2020-11-29 19:34:11
战地摄影师好让人敬佩。被女主的执着和她和丈夫之间的爱情感动。印象最深的就是她提到过的要拍出好看的照片,这样才会吸引人来关注发生了什么。
0 有用 此货暂缺 2022-07-25 10:12:15
emmm…可能期待过高了。笔者的经历,思考,与对工作生活的热情。世界某些角落发生的事情引发了我自己对生活现状的反思。
0 有用 葱酱 2015-04-22 17:46:43
比Addario拍得好的摄影师大有人在,但是她作为活跃在第三世界、战争、冲突、贫困、发展前线的女摄影师,真是很难想到第二个人有可以和她匹敌的经历了。
0 有用 此货暂缺 2022-07-25 10:12:15
emmm…可能期待过高了。笔者的经历,思考,与对工作生活的热情。世界某些角落发生的事情引发了我自己对生活现状的反思。
2 有用 louisean 2022-07-08 13:56:45
“I never imagined I could one day find the perfect partner, who fits effortlessly into the chaos of my life. You keep me grounded, and you encourage me to embrace my passion for this work without lett... “I never imagined I could one day find the perfect partner, who fits effortlessly into the chaos of my life. You keep me grounded, and you encourage me to embrace my passion for this work without letting me sink into the world’s darkness. “ (展开)
0 有用 hurley 2020-11-29 19:34:11
战地摄影师好让人敬佩。被女主的执着和她和丈夫之间的爱情感动。印象最深的就是她提到过的要拍出好看的照片,这样才会吸引人来关注发生了什么。
0 有用 cannon 2019-11-24 07:44:56
引人入胜
1 有用 flora 2019-09-11 15:42:42
几年前看过中文翻译版,当时的我还算跟作者是半个同行。如今回到另一个世界的我,重新阅读作者的战地摄影师经历,仍然能唤醒自己的经历。感情和事业的挣扎,是这个世界上不同女性的共同难题。作者在生育这件事上曾经有过的困惑,在生育后获得的前所未有的体验,在一定程度上让我释然:一个战地摄影记者都可以处理好家庭和事业的平衡,作为平凡职业的我们,又有什么理由恐惧呢?让儿子能有去经历的权利,这是一个母亲能给的最好的礼... 几年前看过中文翻译版,当时的我还算跟作者是半个同行。如今回到另一个世界的我,重新阅读作者的战地摄影师经历,仍然能唤醒自己的经历。感情和事业的挣扎,是这个世界上不同女性的共同难题。作者在生育这件事上曾经有过的困惑,在生育后获得的前所未有的体验,在一定程度上让我释然:一个战地摄影记者都可以处理好家庭和事业的平衡,作为平凡职业的我们,又有什么理由恐惧呢?让儿子能有去经历的权利,这是一个母亲能给的最好的礼物。 (展开)