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Escobar: Der Drogenbaron
Book by James Mollison
416 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2007
About the author
James Mollison
30 books10 followersJames Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and later film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica. His work has been widely published throughout the world including by Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and Le Monde. His latest book Disciples was published in October 2008 following its’ first exhibition at Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York. In 2007 he published The Memory of Pablo Escobar- the extraordinary story of ‘the richest and most violent gangster in history’ told by hundreds of photographs gathered by Mollison. It was the original follow-up to his work on the great apes – widely seen as an exhibition including at the Natural History Museum, London, and in the book James and Other Apes (Chris Boot, 2004). Mollison lives in Venice with his wife.
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November 30, 2015
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Expository Reading and Writing
Anne Baltrushes
11/30/2015
Memory of Pablo Escobar
The Memory of Pablo Escobar by James Mollison, tells the life of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Born in 1950, Escobar rose to fame as he became the world’s largest cocaine dealer in history. Mollison shows hundreds of stories through photographs, interviews from family and people who survived his attacks. Escobar was on the run for over a quarter of his life, and when he was incarcerated it was in a luxurious prison where the guards were employed by him. He eventually escaped and went back on the run until he was shot and killed at the age of 44.
This book was very interesting to me because of the way Mollison arranged all of his material. After reading about a crazy story about Escobar, there would be pictures and interviews from witnesses to follow it up. This is important in a book like this for a couple reasons. It helps the reader further understand what actually happened, but most importantly gives the story credibility; if not for this evidence how does one know the author isn’t claiming fictional writing as non- fictional. Not to mention pictures help keep me interested whereas sometimes the monotony of reading for a while gets boring. This was one of the better books I have read in a while strictly because of how crazy these stories actually are, some mind blowing. Escobar was said to be making the equivalent of 60 million dollars every day in his prime. Numbers like this seem unreal... Along with a lot of other facts in this book. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever been at all interested with Pablo Escobar.
Expository Reading and Writing
Anne Baltrushes
11/30/2015
Memory of Pablo Escobar
The Memory of Pablo Escobar by James Mollison, tells the life of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Born in 1950, Escobar rose to fame as he became the world’s largest cocaine dealer in history. Mollison shows hundreds of stories through photographs, interviews from family and people who survived his attacks. Escobar was on the run for over a quarter of his life, and when he was incarcerated it was in a luxurious prison where the guards were employed by him. He eventually escaped and went back on the run until he was shot and killed at the age of 44.
This book was very interesting to me because of the way Mollison arranged all of his material. After reading about a crazy story about Escobar, there would be pictures and interviews from witnesses to follow it up. This is important in a book like this for a couple reasons. It helps the reader further understand what actually happened, but most importantly gives the story credibility; if not for this evidence how does one know the author isn’t claiming fictional writing as non- fictional. Not to mention pictures help keep me interested whereas sometimes the monotony of reading for a while gets boring. This was one of the better books I have read in a while strictly because of how crazy these stories actually are, some mind blowing. Escobar was said to be making the equivalent of 60 million dollars every day in his prime. Numbers like this seem unreal... Along with a lot of other facts in this book. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever been at all interested with Pablo Escobar.
March 27, 2012
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