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During the final, bloody days of South African apartheid, four remarkable young men-photographers, friends, and rivals-banded together
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Recounts the political, emotional, and personal concerns of the "bang-bang club": four photographers (Marinovich, Silva, Carter, Oosterbroek) who primarily covered South Africa in the last years of apartheid, but also war zones like the former Yugoslavia and the Sudan. In 1994, days after one of the four, Kevin Carter, won the Pulitzer Prize, Marinovich and Oosterbroek were shot while covering a firefight outside Johannesburg. Silva describes how he was torn between helping his comrades and shooting pictures of them.... And then, three months after the shooting, Carter committed suicide. Marinovich and Silva are the only survivors. Includes 40 b&w photographs, a glossary, and an apartheid timeline. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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