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For more about Gilles Peress: |
| Gilles
Peress, Telex Iran: In the Name of Revolution, Millerton, NY:
Aperture, 1983 |
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A large-format book that documents Peress travels during
five weeks in the midst of the 1980 Iranian hostage crisis. Accompanied by telexes
sent and received by Peress and the New York and Paris Magnum offices, as well
as an essay by Iranian writer Gholam Saedi. |
| Gilles
Peress, Farewell to Bosnia, New York: Scalo Publishers, 1994
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More than eighty photographs made during three months in Bosnia in 1993. Peress
writes in the books introduction that he set out only to provide a
visual continuum of experience, existence, and not an explanation of the
events in Bosnia. Also includes a few letters to colleagues and a diary entry.
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| Gilles
Peress, The Silence, New York: Scalo Publishers, 1995 |
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of violence in the ethnic clash of Hutus and Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. No explanation
seems possible for these very disturbing photos. |
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Link to New York Times site http://www.nytimes.com/specials/bosnia/
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A site designed by Peress and featuring many of his Bosnia photos, including
those from a return trip after 1994. Also includes audio files of Peress talking
about his work on Bosnia and background information about the recent political
developments in Yugoslavia. |
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