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DAVID ELLIOT COHEN
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How Great Photojournalism Can Change the World For more than 150 years, photojournalism has revealed truths, exposed lies, advanced public discourse, and inspired people to demand change. Until people see the pictures, no one gets mad and no one takes action. Socially-conscious photojournalists, armed only with cameras, have repeatedly used photographs to change the world, and that legacy lives on in New York Times bestselling author David Elliot Cohen's searing new book What Matters. What Matters: The World's Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential Issues of Our Time (Sterling, 2008) presents 18 powerful, page-turning photo-essays by some of the foremost photo-journalists of our age. These stories include trenchant commentary from the best-recognized experts and thinkers in their fields, such as Jeffrey Sachs (The End of Poverty), Bill McKibben (Meltdown: A Global Warming Travelogue) and Samantha Power (A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide). In a photographic tour de force, David Elliot Cohen takes audiences from melting polar ice caps to China's hyper-polluted Huai River Basin, from the killing fields of Darfur to the desperate oil fields of the Niger River delta, from posh Beverly Hills shops to the sweat shops of Bangladesh where five-year-olds work 12-hour days. This is one world tour you will never forget. Some stories in "No Pictures. No Uproar." will make you cry; others will make you angry. And that is the intent. David Elliot Cohen's multi-media lecture exposes truths, advances the public discourse on critical issues and inspires action. And to facilitate that action, the website: WhatMattersOnline.com, and the book, include an extensive menu of resources, web links and effective action you can take now. For more than 25 years, bestselling author and editor David Elliot Cohen has created large-format photography books that have collectively sold more than five million copies. Most were in the popular "Day in the Life" and "America 24/7" series, which he co-founded. Four of Cohen's books have been New York Times bestsellers, including the New York Times #1 bestseller, "A Day in the Life of America." Many of his other books were national bestsellers in the US and abroad. His most recently published book, What Matters (Sterling, 2008), includes work by the preeminent photojournalists and thinkers of our time. It contends that great photojournalism about essential issues can change the world. Cohen has been profiled in The New York Times, People and other major periodicals. He has appeared on "The Today Show," "Good Morning America," "CBS Sunday Morning," NPR's "All Things Considered" and other major programs. His books have appeared twice each on the covers of Time and Newsweek. — VanityFair.com http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics /2008/09/what-matters.html Visit: www.whatmattersonline.com "Photo essays by some of today's best photojournalists... some will break your heart, others will anger you. All will make you think.” http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/chi-david-elliot-cohen-06sep06,0,5288041.story — The Chicago Tribune "Must viewing." — The San Francisco Chronicle “What really matters to the world? What matters to me? What is most vital and urgent? The answers are in this extraordinary and moving book. This is an invitation for all of us to get involved.” —Isabel Allende "Regardless of what side of the political fence you sit on, this collection of heartbreaking and powerful stories and images is guaranteed to get you thinking." — Popular Photography "What Matters is about big questions and big problems that beg for big solutions." — Florida Times Union |