The fat baby / stories by Eugene Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Eugene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photojournalism.

Physical Description:

431 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Phaidon, 2004.

Summary:

The fat baby is an epic collection of poignant and often controversial stories photographed and written by acclaimed social documentary photographer Eugene Richards. The culmination of a dozen years of reporting, both on and off assignment, these stories, each one different in style and tone, immerse us in the lives of Honduran coffee growers, members of a Kansas City street gang, drought-plagued villagers from Niger, and doctors in an embattled Bosnian hospital. They chronicle the birth of a first child, an explosion of family violence, the struggle of a farm family to hang onto its ancestral home, and the unearthing of a half-hidden grave said to hold the remains of a slave. Described as having an acute, sometimes hard-edged visual sensibility and a literary voice, Richards writes in order to come to terms with the complexities of what he is observing. At a time when photojournalists are often relegated to illustrating the ideas of others, he persists in interweaving his words and photographs to create boldly narrative stories that bear witness to the dramas of real lives and comment on the times in which we live. Deeply personal and prodigious in scope, The Fat Baby is a tribute to the emotional power of photography and a celebration of storytelling.

Contents:

A flower in the desert Chicago, Illinois 7

The wore-out farm Virgin, Utah 33

A little war Kansas City, Missouri 61

The fat baby Safo, Niger 87

Tommy clarke Philadelphia Pennsylvania 121

A procession of them Hidalgo, Mexico 151

The next step Arlington, Virginia 177

From cradle to grave Farmville, Virginia 189

Blue snow Wilici, Bosnia and Herzegovina 227

Prospects Los Angeles, California 261

The run-on of time Aubum, Nebraska 279

Here's to love Tucson, Arizona 325

Dr. death Bronx, New York 349

Am i a poor man? La Sierra Marcala, Honduras 365

Evolution Quincy, Massachusetts 391.

ISBN:

071484196X :

OCLC:

55670016