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Winterreise | 
| Author: Luc Delahaye
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Category: Book
Buy Used: $50.00
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 389769
Media: Paperback
Pages: 232
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0714843393
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780714843391
ASIN: 0714843393
Publication Date: May 1, 2003
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Condition: Crisp, clean, unread paperback with light to moderate shelfwear/edgewear to the covers/dustjacket and a publisher's mark and 'non-mint' stamp to one edge - Nice!!
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This is a compelling, beautiful and sad road story: Luc Delahaye, photographer and melancholy storyteller, travels in winter across the dark landscape of Russia, where he looks into the private face of Russia's moral and social crisis. This is an exceptional body of work, bridging the divide between art and journalism. The photographs are poetic - simultaneously terrifying, exciting, intimate, moving and very revealing. They offer many pleasures despite the depressing subject matter of a nation falling to pieces, in winter, through alcohol and drug abuse.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
Chilling, yet important January 20, 2008
Benjamin R. Greene (Bakersfield, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Luc Delahaye is attempting to make a social and political statement about the suffering that he saw poor Russians enduring during the rapid industrialization after the fall of the Iron Curtain. His camera documents, in sometimes painful detail, how some people have fared under the new capitalist regime. In this he succeeds admirably. Clearly, the rising tide hasn't lifted all the boats. Much like Charles Dickens in his time and place, he is trying to tell us about the lives of those at the bottom in Russia.
However, this photo essay is not a comedy. You may find yourself thanking your lucky stars you aren't living the degraded and sad lives of Delahaye's subjects, but the photos are hard to look at at times.
Moreover, I think some of the other reviewers have a perfectly valid point when they state that there is a bottom end of the lowest class in every society, and the Russians depicted in these photos are no more representative of Russia as a whole than Skid Row denizens could represent all of California.
Overall, this is an important, if sometimes painfully honest, work.
 one of a kind ... a masterpiece . November 2, 2007
B. Miller
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This one little book is worth more, than tons of paper waste you'll find nowdays on shelves of "Photography" section in mainstream bookshops.
initmate russians November 20, 2006
William D. Tompkins (New York, New York USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This photographer gets close, becomes invisible to his subjects and he is able to shoot them in such a way that they forget that he is there. The portraits of people are very good. The landscapes are nothin terrific and should have been included in this book.
a masterwork of personal journalism July 19, 2006
jack kerr (northport, NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this book is itself a long, sad, visual poem. it is truly one of the best photo essays ever done, by a an artist who deserves more credit as being, in some opinion, the best photographer on the planet today. although that kind of argument is ridiculous, his books are all compelling, dangerous, edgy, and most of all honest and sympathetic for often forgotten people.
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