Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva [Kevin Carter] – The Bang-Bang Club – First Edition 2000
£185.00
A first edition first printing published by Heinemann in 2000. A very good book without inscriptions with spotting to the page edges and to the endpapers. In a very good lightly spine faded dust wrapper which is unclipped. Some rubbing.
Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist and member of the ‘Bang-Bang Club’, a group of photographers who documented township violence during apartheid’s final years. Alongside Greg Marinovich, João Silva, and Ken Oosterbroek, Carter worked in extreme danger, capturing images of conflict, brutality, and political unrest. He won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a starving Sudanese child watched by a vulture, an image that brought global attention but also intense criticism. Haunted by trauma, guilt, and the loss of his friend Ken Oosterbroek (who was killed whilst on a photography mission alongside Greg Marinovich (who survived despite being shot himself)), Carter died by suicide later that year, aged 33.
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A first edition first printing published by Heinemann in 2000. A very good book without inscriptions with spotting to the page edges and to the endpapers. In a very good lightly spine faded dust wrapper which is unclipped. Some rubbing.
Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist and member of the ‘Bang-Bang Club’, a group of photographers who documented township violence during apartheid’s final years. Alongside Greg Marinovich, João Silva, and Ken Oosterbroek, Carter worked in extreme danger, capturing images of conflict, brutality, and political unrest. He won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a starving Sudanese child watched by a vulture, an image that brought global attention but also intense criticism. Haunted by trauma, guilt, and the loss of his friend Ken Oosterbroek (who was killed whilst on a photography mission alongside Greg Marinovich (who survived despite being shot himself)), Carter died by suicide later that year, aged 33.
