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Just me and my trustworthy Kindle against the 🌎 again this weekend!

I don‘t know when I picked this up on Audible or why, but it was a really solid memoir of a young woman‘s experience as a war correspondent/ photo journalist. Lynsey Addario has worked in almost all the contemporary war zones risking her life to take photos that show the cost of war on civilians, soldiers and most often innocent women & children. Her story was fascinating & I loved hearing her story. #52Books23 #AWarOtherThanWWIorWWII

I read about her in Herstory and wanted to see her photographs as such a significant American, female photographer for magazines just starting out like Life and Fortune. There is biographical information by each decade of her professional life followed by major pictures she took and published. I was surprised there weren‘t more pictures of South Africa and apartheid.

I tried to read this one a long time ago and just couldn‘t get into it 😩

#DNF
#BookMoods

Love those images !

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/08/the-talibans-return-is...

I‘ve followed Lynsey for decades. All her books are very good.

This was an interesting read about a photographer‘s journey in covering a Doctors Without Borders mission in Afghanistan during the mid-1980s. The greatest thing about this graphic novel is how it incorporates the photos from the experience. 4/5

This was a really good listen, it was intriguing to me to hear the perspective of war from a photographer because they are in it in a way I can‘t imagine. It was also really interesting listening about being a female in this field. Definitely recommend.

I spent most of my day off grading semester exams and late work, so now I'm getting back to #coffeeandabook for #20in4. @Andrew65

Learning to See is a fictionalization of the life of Dorothea Lange, a photographer best known for her photos from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. It veers a bit too close to melodrama for my taste in places and I found the ending too abrupt, but it was also absorbing. I give it a soft pick.

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