When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans
This powerful collection juxtaposes 48 self-posed photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to provide a dramatic portrait of women at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Women from all five branches of the military share their stories herestories that are by...
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This powerful collection juxtaposes 48 self-posed photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to provide a dramatic portrait of women at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Women from all five branches of the military share their stories herestories that are by turns moving, comic, thought-provoking, and profound. Seeing their faces in stunning color photographic portraits and reading what they have to say about loss, comradeship, conflict, and hard choices will change the ways we think about women and war.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780807833803 (0807833800)
ASIN: 807833800
Publish date: May 1st 2010
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Pages no: 157
Edition language: English
This book is based on an art exhibition. The pictures were powerful and real, but the writing was uneven. The words from the service members themselves were very polished, but too politely crafted to feel as real as the pictures. The author's words were fine, but she took a lot of her work in the ch...