Don McCullin

'If this was just a book of McCullin's war photographs it would be valuable enough. But it is much more' Sunday Correspondent

An Autobiography

Unreasonable Behaviour

Lewis Chester

"McCullin is required reading if you want to know what real journalism is all about." --"Times Literary Supplement" From the construction of the Berlin Wall through every conflict up to the Falklands War, photographer Don McCullin has left a trail of iconic images. At the "Sunday Times Magazine "in the 1960s, McCullin's photography made him a new kind of hero. The flow of stories every Sunday took a generation of readers beyond the insularity of post-war Britain and into the recesses of domestic deprivation: when in 1968, a year of political turmoil, the Beatles wanted new pictures, they insisted on using McCullin; when Francis Bacon, whose own career had emerged with depiction of the ravages of the flesh, wanted a portrait, he turned to McCullin. McCullin now spends his days quietly in a Somerset village, where he photographs the landscape and arranges still-lifes -- a far cry from the world's conflict zones and the war-scarred north London of Holloway Road where his career began. In October 2015, it will be twenty-five years since the first publication of his autobiography, "Unreasonable Behaviour" -- a harrowing memoir combining his photojournalism with his lifework. The time is right to complete McCullin's story."

The Destruction Business

Mark Shand

Skulduggery

Un día en la vida de los Beatles

Susan Sontag

Harold Evans

Don Mccullin (signed Edition)

Don McCullin : perspectives

Don McCullin in Afrika

A Retrospective

Mark Haworth-Booth

Donald McCullin

Don McCullin on AIDS in Africa

Cold Heaven

Beirut, a City in Crisis

The author, noted for his war photographs, presents still lifes and landscapes that help depict his inner feelings

Open Skies

Sandro Parmiggiani

Robert Pledge

Don McCullin is among our era's greatest photographers, eyewitness to the "hearts of darkness" of wars, humanitarian tragedies, and social dramas that have marked the second half of the cruel century we have left behind. His images focus on dramatic framing, the expressiveness and powerful impact of close-ups, the movements of bodies silhouetted in space, and strong chiaroscuro accentuated and dominated by his velvety blacks. But he is also the author of unforgettable landscapes, almost always photographed in winter, at dawn or dusk. In this publication the photographic testimonies McCullin gathered from the world's frontlines and humanitarian disasters pass before our eyes one after another : images of the Berlin Wall's construction; wars in Vietnam and Cambodia ; bloody conflicts in the Middle East ; and victims of famine in Biafra, cholera in Bangladesh and AIDS in Africa - to mention just a few. Then there are the merciless depictions McCullin made of his homeland, England, photographing the most contradictory "faces" of that society : gangs and teddy boys, the homeless and the unemployed, and the nobility attending the Ascot races. This monograph is completed by images from recent decades : still lifes like the votive altars he erects at home; views of the English countryside around his house; so-called "primitive peoples" in various parts of the world; and the ruins of Rome's glorious past, for which he developed a keen interest through his friendship with Bruce Chatwin.

La Pace Impossibile

Homecoming

We didn?t know where it was all going. We just didn?t know.One day in September 1968 Don McCullin, then regarded as the world?s most accomplished war photographer, received a commission from the Apple Corporation to spend a day photographing the Beatles. McCullin had just returned from covering the bitter fighting during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and was the most hardened photojournalist in the field. He was astonished by the invitation. On Sunday 28 July he met the Beatles at the Sunday Times studio and began to photograph them in colour for a Life magazine cover. The day that followed has become known in Beatles lore as 'The Mad Day Out?. McCullin shot twenty rolls of black-and-white film in various locations across London, from the banks of the Thames to Paul McCartney?s garden. Apart from the cover photograph and two pictures in McCullin?s recent book In England, we believe the work to be otherwise unpublished.The timing of this day was significant. At the height of their international fame following the release of Sgt. Pepper?s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles were in the middle of recording the White Album. The war was raging in Vietnam and riots had spread through capital cities worldwide. It was the very moment of a generational divide, and the Beatles were the iconic figureheads of the youth movement. One of the most poignant photographs taken that day was of John Lennon posing as dead, surrounded by the other three, in an image that he himself had carefully choreographed. What was an intentional pose in protest is now seen as tragic and prophetic. These pictures are of four inspired musicians on the cusp of the change. They mark the passing of an era in which we can glimpse our own lost youth.

A Day in the Life of the Beatles

Don McCullin first discovered India with Eric Newby in 1966 and he has been back there again and again in the thirty years since. To him, the subcontinent that is now home to almost a billion people is also the most visually exciting place in the world. Martin Amis has described McCullin as 'a ghostly film director floating around in real life', and it is 'real life' in all its diversity that shines out from the extraordinary photographs and their telling commentary in this book.

India

Record of tribes along the Omo River basin in Ethopia and Sudan.

Don McCullin in Africa

Barnaby Rogerson

Don McCullin's reputation as the greatest photographer of conflict has been replaced in recent years with an image of McCullin as the great traveller. He is now as familiar with the remoter parts of the globe as he was once accustomed to life in the war zone. His most ambitious journey has been to explore the fringes of the Roman empire. Southern Frontiers is divided into two parts. The first, The Levant, includes the ruins of Baalbek in the Lebanon, Palmyra in Syria and Jirash in Jordan. The second par , The Moghreb, covers a sweeping journey through the North African coastal countries Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, where he has photographed the great ruins of Leptus Magna. McCullin's photographs, taken on a large format camera, are evocative of the views of distinguished nineteenth-century predecessors who came with sketchbooks and paints. The book is produced in an appropriate large album format. Texts on each of the sites have been written by Barnaby Rogerson, an authority on the Roman empire. The book will include an introduction by McCullin himself.

A Journey Across the Roman Empire

Southern Frontiers

The updated retrospective published for McCullin's 80th birthday. Contains 40 new unpublished photographs and a new introduction - the definitive edition. McCullin's reputation has long been established as one of the greatest photographers of conflict in the last century. In the fourteen years since the first publication of the book, McCullin has shed the role of war photographer and become a great landscape artist. He has also travelled widely through Africa, India, the Middle East and among the tribes living in Stone Age conditions in Indonesia. His journey from the back streets of north London to his rural retreat in the depths of Somerset is unparalleled. It includes a passage through the most terrible scenes of recent history, for which his stark views of the West Country offer him some redemption.

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