Sleeping With Ghosts

by Don McCullin

In this volume, Donald McCullin has gathered what he considers to be 200 of his best pictures. He demonstrates that his interests go far beyond the war photography for which he has become famous. The images he has chosen range from landscapes of India to down-and-outs in the East End.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Don McCullin grew up in north London and was evacuated in 1940 to Somerset. He failed the eleven-plus examination and went to Tollington Park Secondary Modern School. He won a trade art scholarship to the Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts and Buildings. His father, who was an invalid, died, aged forty and McCullin was forced to find work to earn money for the family. He became a pantry boy on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway dining cars, travelling between London and Manchester. In 1950 he went to work in a cartoon animation studio in Mayfair before the Observer newspaper bought one of his gangland pictures and set him on the road as a photojournalist. He moved to the Sunday Times, where he worked for eighteen years. His photographs of almost every major conflict in his adult lifetime until the Falklands war provide some of the most potent images of the twentieth century. His pictures are in major museum collections all over the world. He is the holder of many honours and awards, including the C.B.E. His home is in a Somerset village.

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

Photographs from some of the 20th centuries most brutal conflicts.The picture of the marine with the "1000 yard stare" is one I can never forget.Somehow I find these images more haunting than all the reporting of present conflicts, horrific as they are.