{"product_id":"9780099281498-the-bang-bang-club-snapshots-from-a-hidden-war","title":"GREG MARINOVICH \/ JOAO SILVA | THE BANG-BANG CLUB SNAPSHOTS FROM A HIDDEN WAR","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful and moving book of war photography from Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers and war correspondents, providing an unprecedented insider view of the final years of apartheid. A must-buy for anyone interested in South African history and war photography. Adapted into a hit film starring Ryan Phillippe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bang-Bang Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas a group of four young war photographers, friends and colleagues: Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, war correspondants during the last years of apartheid, who took many of the photographs that encapsulate the final violent years of racist white South Africa. Two of them won Pulitzer Prizes for individual photos. Ken, the oldest and a mentor to the others, died, accidentally shot while working; Kevin, the most troubled of the four, committed suicide weeks after winning his Pulitzer for a photograph of a starving baby in the Sudanese famine. Written by Greg and Joao,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bang-Bang Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etells their uniquely powerful war stories. It tells the story of four remarkable young men, the stresses, tensions and moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme violence, pain and suffering, the relationships between the four and the story of the end of apartheid. An immensely powerful, riveting and harrowing book, and an invakuable contribution to the literary genre of war photography. An eye-opening book for readers of Susan Sontag.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENGUIN RANDOMHOUSE","offers":[{"title":"NZ - In Stock (Ships Tomorrow)","offer_id":53302513565996,"sku":"eb-9780099281498","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/5186\/5644\/files\/9780099281498.jpg?v=1781221251","url":"https:\/\/realgroovy.com\/products\/9780099281498-the-bang-bang-club-snapshots-from-a-hidden-war","provider":"Real Groovy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}