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- Oct. 04, 1993: A Letter From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Oct. 04, 1993 On The Trail Of Terror
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> Within our pages, we've printed some of the most striking images
- of the war in the former Yugoslavia, but the totality of the
- tragedy demands more space than any magazine can give it. That's
- why, when the idea of mounting a photographic exhibit was presented
- to TIME's managing editor Jim Gaines and picture editor Michele
- Stephenson, they jumped at the opportunity. "Life and Time Warner
- had already sponsored an exhibit on Somalia, and we felt we
- should do the same for Bosnia," says Stephenson. "It was a chance
- to tell the whole story--all sides and facets." The result
- is "Faces of Sorrow," a collection of 64 images that document
- the cruelties and suffering that have befallen Serbs, Croats
- and Muslims caught in the conflict.
- </p>
- <p> Putting together the exhibit, now on view at the United Nations
- in New York City, was no simple task. "There was an extraordinary
- outpouring from photographers," observes Aaron Schindler of
- Photo Perspectives, who designed the show. He, along with Sandra
- Miocic and Mirna Safcak, two women of Croatian descent who first
- proposed the exhibit, culled the photos from more than 10,000
- pictures. Their goal: to find graphically strong, informative
- and emotionally evocative images that would illustrate distinct
- agonies of the war--ethnic cleansing, the siege of Sarajevo,
- the medical emergency, life in detention camps and refugee centers,
- and the rape of women. The process was exhausting and harrowing.
- "After two hours," says Schindler, "you were so emotionally
- drained that you wanted to cry. An afternoon of looking at refugee
- pictures left Sandra so depressed that she hallucinated while
- walking down the street."
- </p>
- <p> The final selection of 64 pictures, one-third of them in black
- and white, represents the work of 36 photographers from 12 countries,
- including many whose pictures have appeared in our pages. Chosen
- as the emblem of the exhibit is a photo of a woman grieving
- at the funeral of her husband, a Croatian policeman killed in
- an ambush by Serbs of the Yugoslav National Army forces. It
- was taken by TIME's Christopher Morris, who has covered the
- war since its start and has provided some of its most powerful
- images. After the show closes in New York City on Oct. 2, it
- will tour the U.S., including stops in Los Angeles, Chicago
- and Washington. We hope when you visit you will be as moved
- by these images as we are.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth Valk Long
- </p>
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- </article>
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