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    <body><![CDATA[Reason for Reading: Cybils nominee<br/><br/>Summary: Photographer Didier Lefevre was offered to accompany the MSF (the original French version of Doctors Without Borders) on a 3 month mission to Afghanistan in 1986 when the Soviet-Afghan War was raging. The book tells of his journey from Pakistan ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78843182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://parkablogs.com/content/book-review-photographer-war-torn-afghanistan-doctors-without-borders"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_lDc7gcIupuA/SwK3ry4xf5I/AAAAAAAACrM/U1ZxiWZwrpA/3844869806.jpg" class="escapedImg"/></a><br/>(<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://parkablogs.com/content/book-review-photographer-war-torn-afghanistan-doctors-without-borders">More pictures at parkablogs.com</a>)<br/><br/>I bought the book because a caption on the back cover caught my attention. &quot;I take out one of my cameras. I choose a 20mm lens, a very wide angle, and shoot from the ground. To let people know where I died.&quot;<br/><br/>Well, that and becau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78065577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two reviews ago I declared Sherman Alexie’s The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian a must read. So I fear readers might deem me as too generous is declaring The Photographer a must read so soon afterward. But alas, it’s a risk I will have to take.<br/><br/>The Photographer, in a unique ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69714609">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In <em>The Photographer</em> we get the story of photographer Didier, who went to Afghanistan in 1986 with a group from Doctors Without Borders.  His job was to photograph the experience of the journey from Pakistan to the clinic and the work they were doing.  What we get in this graphic novel is a mixture o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66804158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Based on their title alone, it makes sense as to why Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. But I have to admit I knew very little of the organization itself and the true challenges of their work. It would have been far too simplistic to say it was a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66376029">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A harrowing recounting that is memorable in equally communicating both the tangible sense of imminent violence and the magic of hospitality at the hands of strangers. Photographer Lefevre's  photo documentation of the humanitarian work done by by Medicins Sans Frontieres and Doctors without Borders ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63400509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The photographer of the title is the late Didier Lefevre who accompanied a Doctors Without Borders mission into Afghanistan from Pakistan during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.  The book is a work of graphic nonfiction, using drawings and text by Emmanuel Guibert, black and white photographs b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59678264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing. Unlike most graphic novels, this one reads more like a nonfiction book, mostly in that it requires as much reading as a traditional narrative. The Afghanistan visited here is the one still at war with the Soviet Union in 1986, which provides and interesting if disheartening perspective on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77460605">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1986, the young French photographer Didier Lefevre accompanied Doctors Without Borders into war torn Afghanistan.  Guibert has taken Lefevre's notes and photographs and combined them with his art to tell Lefevre's story. <br/>The combination of art and photography (both extraordinary, by the way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61622400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[War is always hard for me to read about, but they are stories that must be told. The Photographer by French photographer Didier Lefévre is a deeply felt documentary story of Doctors without Borders in Afghanistan. The narrator and photographer is Didier Lefèvre. His black-and-white photographs —...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64210939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing collaboration between the photographer Lefevre and Graphic Novelist Guibert. Magnificiently combines real photographs that Lefevre took while travelling with MSF (Medicins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders) in Afghanistan.  The storytelling is fabulous and the glimpse into daily life o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54896896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy cow.  How to sum up this book.  Terrifying, even though Didier never sees any people get shot.  What on earth possesses someone to go on a Doctor Without Borders trip?  Bewildering, in that the Afghan culture is very removed and kind of redneck.  Also, surprising, in that Juliette, the leader o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80096800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a graphic format unlike any I've ever experienced. The actual photographs are interspersed with drawings of the elements of the story that are not captured on film. This is a factual account of a French photographer (Didier Guibert). It is the story of 3 months in the mid-1980s that he spent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69750321">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great way to introduce anyone to Afghanistan. A photographer tells his story when he was part of a Doctors without borders mission to Afghanistan in 1986. The country was at war and it was difficult to give medical attention in certain areas of the country. This particular group travels from Pakis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79709653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was such a suprising book. I found myself completely rapt to see how well the execution of the book worked--the interleaving actual photographs with graphic depictions of the travel and work of Doctors Without Borders in the northeast corner of Afghanistan. Didier Lefevre, the photographer of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70671583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This weighty book was a superb combination of photography and graphic novel-like images.  Although necessarily narrowed in its scope, I found it to be an interesting and informative background on some of what is currently happening in Afghanistan.   I have previously read books on the work of Doctor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61976902">more...</a>]]></body>
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