The Crosslines Essential Field Guide to AFGHANISTAN Is the only detailed guidebook dealing with the current situation of the country

available in English. Although certain elements in the book have been overtaken by recent events, the field guide is still essential reading for all

journalists, aid workers, diplomats and military personnel operating in the region or otherwise interested in Afghanistan. Journalists and relief

workers from the BBC, TIME, UNHCR, UNICEF and other media or aid groups have already informed us that the Essential Guide to

AFGHANISTAN is the best thing going for quick and informed background information.

Creative Techniques in Photojournalism by Terry Fincher, is a practical guide for photographers who wish to specialize or advance their work in news photography. Each chapter explains how various aspects of the work require different approaches: news photography, feature stories, and general interest assignments.

AP Guide to Photojournalism

Written by noted AP photographer and photoeditor Brian Horton, this is an insider's manual to one of the most glamorous and exciting media professions. Emphasizing the creative process behind the photojournalist's art, Brian Horton draws upon his three decades of experience,

Truth Needs no Ally

This book will give you the inside scoop on the concept, history and day-to-day life of a photojournalist. The book is extraordinarily well

written and very insightful. Mr. Chapnick, the retired President of Black Star, explains the "concerned photographer", developing portfolio, fulfillment as a photojournalist and creative and ethical issues in photojournalism

SHOOTING UNDER FIRE is the candid testimony and stunning photographs of the men and women who go into battle armed only

with a camera to show warfare as it is and where it is. In this volume, ten leading combat photographers relate incidents of horror, humor, bravery, and daring in locations from Vietnam to Haiti, Ramallah to Chechnya,

El Salvador to Sarajevo, the World Trade Center toAfghanistan. Here, in their own words, are their stories of life in the combat zone...

Witness in Our Times

Illustrated with a compelling image from each photographer, Witness in Our Time traces the recent history of social documentary photography

in the words of twenty-two of the genre's best photographers, editors, and curators, showing that the profession remains vital, innovative, and committed to social change.

PHOTOJOURNALISM the Professional Way

New edition of a guide to the many facets of photojournalism--how to get the best shots when on assignment, covering spot or general news, or doing features or portraits. Discusses narrative picture stories, catching candids, creative use of the strobe, shooting with color films, digital imaging and ethical issues surrounding its use, newsroom politics, picture editing, shooting within the bounds of the law, and the history of photojournalism

The Bang Bang Club

Often we are so mesmerized by what a camera sees, that we do not think about the person framing the shot. Here is a fascinating look at how photo-journalism is done and the heavy toll it took on four young men covering South Africa's bloody struggle for freedom. To read this book is to feel the early morning wake up calls, the menace of a crowd getting ready to kill, the shame that can go with taking a prize-wining photograph of human misery. Parts of it will haunt you. ---Suzanne Daley, Former Johannesburg Bureau Chief for The New York Times.

Let Truth be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs

Worldfamous biography by Ben Maddow; Afterword by John G. Morris. Here is the definitive book on Smith's life and work, containing his major photoessays, the portrait work, and spanning his brilliant career from his days aboard an aircraft carrier, through the breadth of Pittsburgh, to the human suffering explicit in his last great essay in Minanata.

Margaret Bourke-White Photographer

This book illustrates why Margaret Bourke-White should be recognized as one of the 20th century's top photographers. Her ability to capture a moment during war and destruction or an enternity in marble and stone, is awe inspiring. She was not limited by her feminity. She moved easily into the world of machines and factories, capturing molten metal and shiny blades.