569.01	Refugees and migrants
569.02	Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
569.03	Nelly's: Greek refugees from Asia Minor
569.04	The Berlin Wall
569.05	Steve McCurry - The Power of a Single Image

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569.01   Documentary >  Refugees and migrants

569.02   Documentary >  Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
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Augustus Francis Sherman (1865-1925) was a registry clerk at Ellis Island (NY) and between 1904 and 1920 he took over 200 photographs of new arrivals.

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569.03   Documentary >  Nelly's: Greek refugees from Asia Minor
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569.04   Documentary >  The Berlin Wall

569.05   Documentary >  Steve McCurry - The Power of a Single Image
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In 1984 the American photojournalist Steve McCurry took a photograph of an Afghan refugee at a camp in Peshawar, Pakistan. Her startling eyes and her expression of apprehension and uncertainty deeply affected those who saw the image and it was widely reprinted - the image led many to ask who the refugee was and what happened to her and this became a quest for Steve McCurry to answer. After nearly two decades he returned with a television team to try and locate her again. He tracked her down and he learnt her name for the first time, Sharbat Gula. The publicity surrounding this led to an outpouring of charitable generosity and Steve McCurry has used the image to promote charitable projects in Asia through the ImagineAsia Foundation with which he is associated.

Above I show several versions of the same image - one is the original image, another is the book cover for the book Portraits by Steve McCurry that contains many of his most memorable shots. Another photograph was taken in July 2005 in Seattle (USA) showing a mural that includes the same photograph on the exterior wall of the Kabul restaurant that serves Afghan cuisine.

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Chim

Young, Cynthia; Naggar, Carole & Cohen, Roger, 2013, We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933-1956 by Chim, (Prestel) isbn-10: 3791352814 isbn-13: 978-3791352817 [Δ]

Josef Koudelka

Koudelka, Josef, 1988, Josef Koudelka: Exils, (Paris: Centre National de la Photographie) [Δ]

Sebastião Salgado

Salgado, Sebastião, 2000, Migrations, (New York: Aperture) [Δ]

Salgado, Sebastião, 2000, The Children: Refugees and Migrants, (New York: Aperture) [Δ]



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Thérèse Bonney (1894-1978) • David Goldblatt (1930-) • Josef Koudelka (1938-) • Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) • Don McCullin (1935-) • Steve McCurry (1950-) • James Nachtwey (1948-) • Nelly's (1899-1998) • Sebastião Salgado (1944-) • Augustus Francis Sherman • Ad van Denderen • Alex Webb (1952-)

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