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End of the Caliphate / Ivor Prickett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gottingen : Steidl, 2019.Description: 1 volume : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9783958294936 (hbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 779.092 23
LOC classification:
  • TR820.6
Summary: This is the result of over a year's work in 2016 and 2017 photographing the military campaign to reclaim Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, from ISIS. Working exclusively for the New York Times, Ivor Prickett was often embedded within Iraqi special forces troops as he documented both the fighting and its toll on the civilian population and urban landscape. The operation lasted nearly nine months, resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and ruined vast tracts of the city. Involving some of most brutal urban combat since World War II, the fall of Mosul was key to the downfall of the Islamic State: soon after the remains of the so-called 'Caliphate' quickly collapsed. Prickett focuses on the human struggles of conflict. Taken on the frontline, his pictures legitimately and compellingly record the experience of being 'caught in the crossfire', whether as a soldier or non-combatant.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 779.092 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out Past Pupil 17/05/2024 R17045F0499

This is the result of over a year's work in 2016 and 2017 photographing the military campaign to reclaim Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, from ISIS. Working exclusively for the New York Times, Ivor Prickett was often embedded within Iraqi special forces troops as he documented both the fighting and its toll on the civilian population and urban landscape. The operation lasted nearly nine months, resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and ruined vast tracts of the city. Involving some of most brutal urban combat since World War II, the fall of Mosul was key to the downfall of the Islamic State: soon after the remains of the so-called 'Caliphate' quickly collapsed. Prickett focuses on the human struggles of conflict. Taken on the frontline, his pictures legitimately and compellingly record the experience of being 'caught in the crossfire', whether as a soldier or non-combatant.

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