false 127503 6 Fresh out of college and passionate about photography, Deborah Copaken Kogan moved to Paris in 1988 and began knocking on photo agency doors, begging to be given a photojournalism assignment. Within weeks she was on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, the only woman&#8212;and the only journalist&#8212;in a convoy of mujahideen, the rebel &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; at the time. She had traveled there with a handsome but dangerously unpredictable Frenchman, and the interwoven stories of their relationship and the assignment set the pace for <i>Shutterbabe</i>&#8217;s six chapters, each covering a different corner of the globe, each linked to a man in Kogan&#8217;s life at the time.<br><br>From Zimbabwe to Romania, from Russia to Haiti, Kogan takes her readers on a heartbreaking yet surprisingly hilarious journey through a mine-strewn decade, seamlessly blending her personal battles&#8212;sexism, battery, life-threatening danger&#8212;with the historical ones&#8212;wars, revolution, unfathomable suffering&#8212;it was her job to record. 1843967 2001 Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War total:471|5:163|4:171|3:104|2:23|1:10| 471 1867 623 70 4 0 false false Thu Jan 08 06:54:27 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 06:54:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 19:42:12 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 07:32:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 true false Wed Apr 18 10:08:17 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 18 10:12:47 -0700 2007
for any woman (or man) who has fantasized about covering jihadists in afghanistan, guerill...more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 08:50:45 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 08:53:36 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 08:59:08 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 11:29:37 -0800 2008
Overall, she tells a good story. What I did not like was her "Loo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 27 13:37:03 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 13:37:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 06:23:51 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 06:36:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 14:03:27 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 14:12:39 -0700 2009 losers lovers rather than the exotic spots around the globe ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Jan 02 13:20:52 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 13:21:34 -0800 2008
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Perhaps it's because this young brazen women of 22 goes into the worst torn ridden countries in the world by herself; there is a bravery and stupidity (and I mean that in the nicest way possible!) there that I just admired and was f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Apr 18 08:36:29 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 18:03:06 -0700 2007
I think this book carries a certain element of that but it only starts the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 11:17:21 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 13:10:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Mar 06 15:56:08 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 16:03:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 25 16:14:36 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 16:22:14 -0700 2007
She opens the book by describing how one of her traveling companions has sat on her bookbag (f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Mar 14 09:18:33 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 09:24:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 07:28:28 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 07:31:28 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Nov 14 08:09:44 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 08:09:44 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Nov 19 13:56:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 06:02:13 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 19 12:40:55 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 12:42:29 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 11:32:16 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 11:33:10 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=127503