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...Inferno (Phaidon; 480 pages; $125) is the record of what Nachtwey saw in the 1990s. After the fall of the communist dictator Ceaucescu, he visited the ghoulish places where Romanian orphans were warehoused. He moved on to Somalia and the Sudan--where famine was used as a weapon of mass destruction during civil war--and he photographed in the refugee camps. In 1994 he worked in Rwanda and Zaire during the unsupervised ferocities of the Hutu massacre of the Tutsis and the regional chaos it set in motion, including what may have been the largest refugee exodus in history...
...postcards in an age of e-mail and cheap long-distance calls? Almost none. Which may be why they're enjoying a moment of higher hipness. Barneys' New York City flagship store opens two new floors this month, with dressing rooms covered in cards from highway rest stops. And Phaidon has just released Boring Postcards, a coffee-table book of British cards featuring roads, old malls and unremarkable views. Groovy, baby...
Woodblock prints have become synonymous with Japanese art. Later Japanese Prints by Richard Illing (Phaidon; 64 pages; $9.95), an anthology of 65 examples (33 in color), surveys the vital 19th century tradition in which the print was produced and sold as a popular, commercial art form. Broadsheets celebrating the Kiabuki theater, courtesans, sumo wrestlers, samurai heroes, and witches and demons from Japanese folklore sold like rice cakes in the capital of Edo, now Tokyo. Yet despite their wide appeal, these prints were the work of master craftsmen who painstakingly carved up to a dozen separate blocks to produce one multicolored...
They conspired together and pulled off a successful coup which eliminated Papadopoulos. Phaidon Gyzilis, the commander of the first Greek army and his colleagues, high-ranking military and top-level bureaucrats, make strange bedfellows with the powerful remnants of the Papadopoulos junta. Brigadier general Dimitrios Ioanides, the head of military police, is the most powerful left-over from the previous regime. Ioanides, who has established a reputation for toughness and viciousness, is a man who believes that democracy is either a luxury or a disaster for the Greek people. His faction believes that the student-led revolt was a demonstration...
...FIRST GLANCE, General Phaidon Gizikis's replacing Colonel George Papadopoulos as military dictator of Greece doesn't seem to have much significance. Gizikis denounced Papadopoulos for betraying the principles of the Greek coup of 1967, which brought fascism to Greece. But while Papadopoulos made some attempts in recent months to lend his regime legitimacy through tightly controlled elections and the establishment of an ostensibly civilian government, the attempts never developed into anything more than windowdressing for the repression and torture that kept him in power...