{"id":15526,"date":"2008-01-07T23:37:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T23:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/01\/war-and-rebirth-in-photos-illustration.html"},"modified":"2008-01-07T23:37:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T23:37:15","slug":"war_and_rebirth_in_photos_illustration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/war_and_rebirth_in_photos_illustration-2\/","title":{"rendered":"War and rebirth, in photos &amp; illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>When not driving between continents &amp; documenting the experience, German-born, Brooklyn-dwelling photographer Christoph Bangert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophbangert.com\/itscluded.php?gallery=02_IRAQ&amp;show=2\">produces gripping photojournalism<\/a> in Iraq, Darfur, and elsewhere.&#160; You can find his Iraq effort <a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.typepad.com\/the_online_photographer\/2007\/12\/iraq-the-space.html\">reviewed here<\/a>, and on the NYT site Christoph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/html\/weekinreview\/20051106_BANGERT_AUDIOSS\/blocker.html\">narrates over a selection of his photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Offering a different take on Iraq,<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootingwar.com\/\">Shooting War<\/a><\/em> is a graphic novel written by Anthony Lappe &amp; illustrated by Dan Goldman.&#160; You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/arts\/books\/2007\/12\/shooting-war.html\">background &amp; a review on MotherJones.com<\/a>.&#160; According to that site, &quot;To layer drawings and shading on top of photos, Goldman drew everything directly onto a 21-inch touch screen using an electronic, wireless pen, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop. Everything combined, this is a slick-looking book.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>On a rather brighter note, the NYT features a slideshow on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2007\/12\/14\/world\/1215-KITES_index.html?th&amp;emc=th\">kite flying in Kabul<\/a>&#8211;a colorful pastime banned under the Taliban.&#160; See related <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/15\/world\/asia\/15kites.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">article<\/a>, with video. \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When not driving between continents &amp; documenting the experience, German-born, Brooklyn-dwelling photographer Christoph Bangert produces gripping photojournalism in Iraq, Darfur, and elsewhere.&#160; You can find his Iraq effort reviewed here, and on the NYT site Christoph narrates over a selection of his photos. Offering a different take on Iraq, Shooting War is a graphic novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}