DON MCCULLIN

The definitive retrospective of one of Britain's leading photographers, andarguably the greatest recorder of conflict in the latter 20th century. Thebook opens and ends in the Somerset landscape that surrounds McCullin'shome, but the whole sequence of photographs encompasses a ravaged northernEngland, war in Cyprus, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia and Beirut, as well asriots in Derry and famine in Bangladesh. The climax of the book is amongthe cannibals and tribespeople deep in the jungles of Irian Jaya, where thephotographer focuses on humanity in an almost Stone Age condition. Theintroduction by Harold Evans is drawn from his long experience of workingwith Mccullin. The novelist and essayist Susan Sontag has contributed anessay on McCullin and the role of witness to conflict.