Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Fotografija
Autor: Strani

U dobrom stanju, sa potpisom autora na zaštitnoj kutiji

The Italians: face of a nation ; Print length. 140 pages ; Language. English ; Publisher. McGraw-Hill ; Publication date. January 1, 1965

This man, who took the pictures and wrote the text of this book, is not an Italian “Shut that wasn’t his fault. He did the best he could: his wife is Italian, his favorite base abroad is Milan, and he has zipped in and out of Italy for 20 years getting to know that lively, mercurial, intensely human land and its even more human humans. Furthermore, he fits there. Though he is a Welsh-American born in Algeria, world-traveler John Phillips is as irreverent of authority, as irrepressibly full of fun and hope, as quick of enthusiasm as the Italians themselves. Perhaps that is why he has captured them so well in this combination of word vignettes and probing portraits. He has put together quite a zoo—everybody from novelist Alberto Moravia to the happy proprietor of a gas station, from car designer Pininfarina to pants designer (ladies’ division) Emilio Pucci, from FIAT’S boss to a pizzamaker, an art forger, and some movie star named Sophia Loren. They belong in the same book only because they are all, praise be, Italians. No doubt some who pick up this book will do so because they have already lost their hearts—with whatever misgivings—to people like this. Other readers, who meet them for the first time in these pages, are practically guaranteed to lose their hearts—either to the Italians or to Mr. Phillips.

John Phillips (November 13, 1914 in Bouïra, Algeria – August 22, 1996 in Manhattan, New York City) was a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s to the 1950s who was known for his war photographs.

French by birth, John Phillips was born in Algeria, to a Welsh emigre father and an American mother. He spent his early childhood in an Arab world, before his family moved to France in 1925, first to Paris and then to Nice.[1]

He was hired by Life in 1936 and his first assignment was to cover Edward VIII`s opening of Parliament. His pictures were included in the magazine`s first issue (on November 23, 1936) and he went on to cover many events of the Second World War.[2] He photographed Yugoslav guerrilla leader Draža Mihailović in June 1946 during his trial in Belgrade. He shot the last images of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1944. Saint Exupery, days before he disappeared, gave Phillips a manuscript, `Letter to an American `[3] which Phillips eventually donated to France. He documented the expulsion of Jews and the destruction and sacking of the Jewish Quarter that took place during the Battle for Jerusalem during the 1947–1949 Palestine war.[4] Phillips disguised himself as a British member of the Arab Legion to get in, managing to avoid censorship from the Arab authorities.[5]

John Phillips has been described as the `grand-godfather of photo-journalism, a master of lenses and multiple languages; elegant, exuberant and chrome-steel effectual, who has recorded in his own peripatetic way some of the freshest footprints of history.`

Books
`Odd World: a photo-reporter`s story` (1959) Simon & Schuster, NY
`Bled to the Gutter: a photo-reporter`s story` (1960) Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London.
`The Italians: face of a nation` (1965) Mcgraw-Hill, NY.
Jerusalem: A Will To Survive (1976) Dial Press
Yugoslav Story (1984)
It Happened in Our Lifetime (1985) Little, Brown
Poet and Pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1994) Scalo
Free Spirit in a Troubled World (1996) Scalo

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