The Photographer by Didier Lefevre

The Photographer by Didier Lefevre

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER

Alan's War creator Emmanuel Guibert combines photos and narrative art to tell the story of photojournalist Didier Lefevre's travels in Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders.

In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war between the Soviet Union and the Mujahidin. Didier Lefevre was a photojournalist who accompanied a Doctors Without Borders team on a mission at the height of the war. In the company of an arms caravan, Lefevre and the doctors climbed across arid mountain passes to reach a tiny hut deep in the war zone, which would serve as a field hospital.

This is Didier's story, in his own words, with his own photographs. Through his camera, we witnesses humanity at every extreme--violence, despair, generosity, and heroism--against the backdrop of the vast, barren Afghan landscape. Emmanuel Guibert has combined Lefevre's unflinching photography with his own spare, expressive illustrations to achieve a visual memoir that challenges the mind and strikes at the heart.

As the consequences of that war continue to reverberate in the region, The Photographer focuses on some of its true heroes: the doctors who risk death to save lives and mend the wounds of war.

Emmanuel Guibert (Paris, 1964) is one of Europe's most prestigious graphic novelists. Alph-Art, Essentiel, y Prix René Goscinny at el Festival de Angulema, Grand Prix de la asociación de cristianos franceses ACBD, y Eisner en Estados Unidos, entre otros, forman parte del movimiento Nouvelle BD, que renovó el vista del cómic en Francia a mediados de los Aside from the Alan Ingram Cope series, which includes La guerra de Alan, La infancia de Alan, and Martha y Alan, among his most notable works is El fotógrafo, a comic created in collaboration with Didier Lefèvre that stands out for both its content and its graphic execution, in which dibujos and photographs are intermixed.

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ISBN 13	9781596433755
ISBN 10	1596433752
Title	The Photographer
Author	Didier Lefevre
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Roaring Brook Press
Year published	2009-05-12
Number of pages	272
Prizes	Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2010, Winner of Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (U.S. Ed. Inter. Material) 2010
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