Inside Algeria /
Michael von Graffenried, a Swiss photographer, covertly photographed civil strife in Algeria from the early 1990s through 1998. In a land where Islamic terrorists have executed over sixty journalists and photographers in the last seven years, Graffenried's very survival is remarkable. His extra...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Aperture,
©1998.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | Michael von Graffenried, a Swiss photographer, covertly photographed civil strife in Algeria from the early 1990s through 1998. In a land where Islamic terrorists have executed over sixty journalists and photographers in the last seven years, Graffenried's very survival is remarkable. His extraordinary accomplishment, however, is these photographs, which form a composite of Algeria that is more whole than the nation itself, fractured by one segment of the population in favor of democracy and another in favor of an Islamic state. |
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| Item Description: | Includes an introduction by Mary-Jane Deeb. |
| Physical Description: | 158 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 x 31 cm |
| ISBN: | 0893818402 9780893818401 |