
Life, Death and Everything in Between
- Publisher
- GOST Books
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 978-1-915423-20-7
- Specifications
- Hardback, clothbound
280 x 360 mm, portrait
224 pages
142 images
Text by Simon Baker
Life, Death and Everything in Between presents key photographs by Don McCullin. The images in the book—some rarely published or previously unseen—were edited by McCullin through the process of revisiting his archives and reassessing photographs made from the late 1950s until recently. The book aims to be neither a retrospective nor a definitive publication, but to present a selection of images valued by McCullin with the benefits of both hindsight and wisdom, encapsulating his prolific, varied and ongoing career. It opens with his documentary photographs made in London in the 1950s, followed by reportage made in conflicts across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South-East Asia. Known for the bold, frank and always emotionally engaging gaze with which he approached the most disparate subjects, McCullin produced some of the most recognisable images of poverty, hunger and war in the history of the medium, as well as documenting the landscape—both in Britain and abroad—with the style and passion that distinguishes all his work. The publication coincided with the retrospective exhibition Don McCullin in Rome at Palazzo delle Esposizioni.