Kamis, 07 September 2017

A Terrible Beauty

“I’m a photojournalist, or whatever you want to call me. But I don’t belong to the world of art.” So writes Don McCullin in Shaped by War, a chronicle of his four decades of war photography. McCullin was born in London in 1935, and in many ways his war-shadowed childhood groomed him for the job …

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