SIGNED; Don McCullin - The Destruction Business (FIRST BOOK) - 1971

VERY FIRST, VERY IMPORTANT PHOTOBOOK by English photography legend Don McCullin from 1971:
Martin Parr, The Photobook vol 1, page 249.

Bodly signed by the photographer.
Signatures by this artist are scarce.
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE.

EXCELLENT FRESH CONDITION.

DON MCCULLIN, born 1935 in London, became a member of MAGNUM in 1967.
He stayed there only till 1969.
DON MCCULLIN is one of the best and one of the most famous war photographers worldwide.
In 1964 DON MCCULLIN received the World Press Photo Award for his coverage of the war in Cyprus.
In 2006 DON MCCULLIN was honoured with the Cornell Capa Award from the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York.

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"It was the shortest way to success." -
This is roughly how British photographer Don McCullin explains his decision to go to war with his camera in a conversation with ZEIT reporter Peter Sager:
"I wanted to get on the big stage, to become internationally known as a photographer."
Yet McCullin was already a recognised photojournalist in England thanks to his portraits and social reports that appeared in the Observer. But that was not enough for the man from Finsbury Park, a run-down neighbourhood in North London. Here he had grown up in quite poverty and had gone through the usual ghetto career, was a member of a street gang and often involved in fights. Of all people, the elegant, worldly and intellectually educated Robert Capa, co-founder of the legendary Magnum agency and in the eyes of many: the war correspondent of all war correspondents, became McCullin's role model. Capa had stepped on a mine in Vietnam in 1954 and died. Don McCullin wanted to fill the vacuum that Capa's death left in the photography scene. Again and again, he tells Peter Sager, he stood in front of a mirror and said to himself - "One day you'll be somebody!"

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Sun Books, Melbourne, Australia. 1971. First Australian edition, first printing.
The title was published in the same year in identical form also in England (Open Gate, London) and in America (Macmillan, New York).

Paperback. 180 x 238 mm. 96 pages. 81 black and white photographs. Photos: Don McCullin. Design: Richard Hayes. Text by Donald McCullin. Text in English.

Condition:
Inside excellent, fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside very fresh; very light trace of use. Overall the sensitive title in very fine, much better than usual condition.

Important first photobook by Don McCullin - extremely hard to find "signed by the artist".