Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear

This is just an extraordinary book. Ms. Bronstein spent nearly 15 years in the country and the images reflect her sensitivity and understanding of the issues. But more important, she has an incredible eye for what makes a great image...the color, the composition, the sequencing.... Even the pictures of the results of the awful violence still pop, which add context to the social commentary implicit in the image. This is not the first book on Afghanistan's beauty and horrors, but it is one of the top two or maybe three of all the photo books covering the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dramatic, often shattering photographs of Afghanistan.