Bedrooms of the fallen / Ashley Gilbertson ; with a foreword by Philip Gourevitch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbertson, Ashley, author.

Contributor:

Ashley, Gilbertson, Contributor.

Gourevitch, Philip.

Philip, Gourevitch, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Casualties--Pictorial works.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Afghan War, 2001-2021--Casualties--Pictorial works.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than a decade, the United States has been fighting wars so far from the public eye as to risk being forgotten, the struggles and sacrifices of its volunteer soldiers almost ignored. Photographer and writer Ashley Gilbertson has been working to prevent that. His dramatic photographs of the Iraq war for the New York Times and his book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot took readers into the mayhem of Baghdad, Ramadi, Samarra, and Fallujah. But with Bedrooms of the Fallen, Gilbertson reminds us that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have also reached deep into homes far from the noise of battle, down quiet streets and country roads—the homes of family and friends who bear their grief out of view. The book’s wide-format black-and-white images depict the bedrooms of forty fallen soldiers—the equivalent of a single platoon—from the United States, Canada, and several European nations. Left intact by families of the deceased, the bedrooms are a heartbreaking reminder of lives cut short: we see high school diplomas and pictures from prom, sports medals and souvenirs, and markers of the idealism that carried them to war, like images of the Twin Towers and Osama Bin Laden. A moving essay by Gilbertson describes his encounters with the families who preserve these private memorials to their loved ones, and shares what he has learned from them about war and loss. Bedrooms of the Fallen is a masterpiece of documentary photography, and an unforgettable reckoning with the human cost of war.

Contents:

Bedrooms of the fallen

Absences.

Notes:

"[The book] is composed of wide-format, black-and-white photos of forty bedrooms left behind by soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Left intact by the families of the deceased, these bedrooms are filled with milestones of lives cut cruelly short. These forty photos---a number corresponding to the size of a platoon---convey the anguish of war more eloquently than any battlefield photograph and serve as a lasting memorial to the troops who gave their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan"--Publisher's blurb.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-13511-X

OCLC:

1233040882