Witness to History : 100 Photographs of the Struggle for Democracy in Haiti book PDF, DJV, EPUB
9781609805852 English 1609805852 From bloodshed on the Ruelle Vaillant in November 1987, as the first presidential elections ended, to the bloody coup d'état by the army against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991; from the antigovernment protests of November 2002, to the violent earthquake that hit the Haitian capital in January 2010, leaving in its wake over 250,000 dead and a million homeless; from the spectacular return throughout 2011 of ex-president-for-life Jean-Claude Duvalier and ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the inauguration of newly elected president Michel Martelly--these are just a few of the images of devastation and endurance in Thony Belizaire --one man with a camera covering a small nation and a world of trouble. The photographs collected in Thony Belizaire are notable, as Raoul Peck notes in his foreword, "for their violence, their realism, their poetry." These 100 full-color images are joined here by accompanying text the author was writing for this book right up to his untimely death., This book celebrates Bellizaire's legacy in a never-before-collected set of photos and essays by Belizaire. There is nothing out there even remotely equivalent to this in covering the last forty years of Haiti. This book is the first published work of a Haitian who has witnessed first-hand a long, inspiring, and exemplary period from its beginning to the present: the major earthquake in 2010 that left over 250,000 dead; political upheaval that has bedeviled his homeland throughout its history; from Duvalier to Martelly; protests advancing freedom of the press and gay marriage. These are tumultuous images; sometimes shocking for their violence, their realism, their poetry. In first-person narrative essays together with the images, the photographer reveals what it was like to live these events from within. Collected for the first time in this shattering volume, this democratic epic will be seen as it should be: through Haitian eyes., Thony Belizaire has been the world's eyes and ears in Haiti for three decades: virtually every photo you've seen of Haiti has been taken by him. Leaders and media around the world mourned his death of cancer at age 54 in July 2013. This book celebrates Bellizaire's legacy in a never-before-collected set of photos and essays by Belizaire. There is nothing out there even remotely equivalent to this in covering the last forty years of Haiti. This book is the first published work of a Haitian who has witnessed first-hand a long, inspiring, and exemplary period from its beginning to the present: the major earthquake in 2010 that left over 250,000 dead; political upheaval that has bedeviled his homeland throughout its history; from Duvalier to Martelly; protests advancing freedom of the press and gay marriage. These are tumultuous images; sometimes shocking for their violence, their realism, their poetry. In first-person narrative essays together with the images, the photographer reveals what it was like to live these events from within. Collected for the first time in this shattering volume, this democratic epic will be seen as it should be: through Haitian eyes., Thony Belizaireahas been the world's eyes and ears in Haiti for three decades: virtually every photo you've seen of Haiti has been taken by him. Leaders and media around the world mourned his death of cancer at age 54 in July 2013.This book celebrates Bellizaire's legacy in a never-before-collected set of photos and essays by Belizaire.There is nothing out there even remotely equivalent to this in covering the last forty years of Haiti. This book is the first published work of a Haitian who has witnessed first-hand a long, inspiring, and exemplary period from its beginning to the present: the major earthquake in 2010 that left over 250,000 dead; political upheaval that has bedeviled his homeland throughout its history; from Duvalier to Martelly; protests advancing freedom of the press and gay marriage. These are tumultuous images; sometimes shocking for their violence, their realism, their poetry.In first-person narrative essays together with the images, the photographer reveals what it was like to live these events from within. Collected for the first time in this shattering volume, this democratic epic will be seen as it should be: through Haitian eyes.
9781609805852 English 1609805852 From bloodshed on the Ruelle Vaillant in November 1987, as the first presidential elections ended, to the bloody coup d'état by the army against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991; from the antigovernment protests of November 2002, to the violent earthquake that hit the Haitian capital in January 2010, leaving in its wake over 250,000 dead and a million homeless; from the spectacular return throughout 2011 of ex-president-for-life Jean-Claude Duvalier and ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the inauguration of newly elected president Michel Martelly--these are just a few of the images of devastation and endurance in Thony Belizaire --one man with a camera covering a small nation and a world of trouble. The photographs collected in Thony Belizaire are notable, as Raoul Peck notes in his foreword, "for their violence, their realism, their poetry." These 100 full-color images are joined here by accompanying text the author was writing for this book right up to his untimely death., This book celebrates Bellizaire's legacy in a never-before-collected set of photos and essays by Belizaire. There is nothing out there even remotely equivalent to this in covering the last forty years of Haiti. This book is the first published work of a Haitian who has witnessed first-hand a long, inspiring, and exemplary period from its beginning to the present: the major earthquake in 2010 that left over 250,000 dead; political upheaval that has bedeviled his homeland throughout its history; from Duvalier to Martelly; protests advancing freedom of the press and gay marriage. These are tumultuous images; sometimes shocking for their violence, their realism, their poetry. In first-person narrative essays together with the images, the photographer reveals what it was like to live these events from within. Collected for the first time in this shattering volume, this democratic epic will be seen as it should be: through Haitian eyes., Thony Belizaire has been the world's eyes and ears in Haiti for three decades: virtually every photo you've seen of Haiti has been taken by him. Leaders and media around the world mourned his death of cancer at age 54 in July 2013. This book celebrates Bellizaire's legacy in a never-before-collected set of photos and essays by Belizaire. There is nothing out there even remotely equivalent to this in covering the last forty years of Haiti. This book is the first published work of a Haitian who has witnessed first-hand a long, inspiring, and exemplary period from its beginning to the present: the major earthquake in 2010 that left over 250,000 dead; political upheaval that has bedeviled his homeland throughout its history; from Duvalier to Martelly; protests advancing freedom of the press and gay marriage. These are tumultuous images; sometimes shocking for their violence, their realism, their poetry. In first-person narrative essays together with the images, the photographer reveals what it was like to live these events from within. Collected for the first time in this shattering volume, this democratic epic will be seen as it should be: through Haitian eyes., Thony Belizaireahas been the world's eyes and ears in Haiti for three decades: virtually every photo you've seen of Haiti has been taken by him. Leaders and media around the world mourned his death of cancer at age 54 in July 2013.This book celebrates Bellizaire's legacy in a never-before-collected set of photos and essays by Belizaire.There is nothing out there even remotely equivalent to this in covering the last forty years of Haiti. This book is the first published work of a Haitian who has witnessed first-hand a long, inspiring, and exemplary period from its beginning to the present: the major earthquake in 2010 that left over 250,000 dead; political upheaval that has bedeviled his homeland throughout its history; from Duvalier to Martelly; protests advancing freedom of the press and gay marriage. These are tumultuous images; sometimes shocking for their violence, their realism, their poetry.In first-person narrative essays together with the images, the photographer reveals what it was like to live these events from within. Collected for the first time in this shattering volume, this democratic epic will be seen as it should be: through Haitian eyes.