SHUTTERBABE Adventures in Love and War Hardcover - 2001
by Deborah Copaken Kogan
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This hilarious and winning coming-of-age story shows how a young photojournalist fought her way through the world's battlefields--from Zimbabwe to Russia to Haiti--and through the battle between the sexes to overcome danger and find truth and love.
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Details
- Title SHUTTERBABE Adventures in Love and War
- Author Deborah Copaken Kogan
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; First Printing
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Villard, New York
- Date 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 158406
- ISBN 9780375503641 / 0375503641
- Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.56 x 6.45 x 1.09 in (24.28 x 16.38 x 2.77 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects War photographers - United States, Women photographers - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00038179
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
From the jacket flap
In 1988, fresh out of Harvard, Kogan moved to Paris with a small backpack, a couple of cameras, the hubris of a superhero, and a strong thirst for danger. She wanted to see what a war would look like when seen from up close, to immerse herself in a world where the gun is God. Naively, she figured it would be easy to filter death through the prism of her wide-angle lens.
She was dead wrong.
Within weeks of arriving in Paris, after knocking on countless photo agency doors and begging to be sent where the action was, Kogan found herself on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, her tiny frame veiled from head to toe, the only woman -- and the only journalis -- in a convoy of rebel freedom fighters. Kogan had not actually planned on shooting the Afghan war alone. However, the beguiling French photographer she'd entrusted with both her itinerary and her heart turned out to be as dangerously unpredictable as, well, a war.
It is the saga of both her relationship with this French-man and her assignment in Afghanistan that fuels the first of Shutterbabe's six page-turning chapters, each covering a different corner of the globe and each ultimately linked to the man Kogan was involved with at the time. From Zim-babwe to Romania, from Russia to Haiti, Kogan takes her readers on a heartbreaking yet surprisingly hilarious journey through a mine-strewndecade, her personal battles against sexism, battery, and even rape blending seamlessly with the historical struggles of war, revolution, and unfathomable abuse it was her job to record.
In the end, what was once adventurous to the girl began to weigh heavily on the woman. Though her photographs were often splashed across the front pages of international newspapers and magazines, though she was finally accepted into photojournalism's macho fraternity, with each new assignment, with each new affair, Kogan began to feel there was something more she was after. Ultimately, what she discovered in herself was a person -- a woman -- for whom life, not death, is the one true adventure to be cherished above all.
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Citations
- Booklist, 12/01/2000, Page 677
- Brill's Content, 02/01/2001, Page 123
- Entertainment Weekly, 01/26/2001, Page 94
- Library Journal, 11/15/2000, Page 78
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/01/2000, Page 100
- New York Times, 03/11/2001, Page 21
- New Yorker (The), 01/29/2001, Page 89
- Publishers Weekly, 10/30/2000, Page 54