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| DISCOGRAPHY: | Kevin Carter Everything Must Go |
| LYRICS: | Nicky Wire |
| MUSIC: | James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore |
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"Named after the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who documented
the war in Rwanda. After being accused of exploiting the situation
for his own name (his photo of a child's body with a vulture in the
background became a famous image of the war), he turned to wildlife
photography. Unable to live with either the guilt or his memories of
the conflict, he took his own life. Music incorporates such unlikely
influences as The Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach. The now
multi-talented Sean Moore plays trumpet." (Andrew Male; Select June 1996) |
AK-47
(Avtomat Kalashnikova, Model 1947)The AK-47, produced during WW2, is the most widespread weapon in the world. Over 50 armies in the world use it. Especially popular amongst freedom fighters.
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| BANG BANG CLUB
When riots began sweeping the black townships in 1984, Kevin Carter moved to the Johannesburg Star and aligned himself with the crop of young, white photojournalists who wanted to expose the brutality of apartheid - a mission that had once been the almost exclusive calling of South Africa's black photographers. "They put themselves in face of danger, were arrested numerous times, but never quit. They literally were willing to sacrifice themselves for what they believed in," says American photojournalist James Nachtwey, who frequently worked with Carter and his friends. By 1990, civil war was raging between Mandela's A.N.C. and the Zulu-supported Inkatha Freedom Party. For whites, it became potentially fatal to work the townships alone. To diminish the dangers, Carter hooked up with three friends - Ken Oosterbroek of the Star and free-lancers Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva - and they began moving through Soweto and Tokoza at dawn. If a murderous gang was going to shoot up a bus, throw someone off a train or cut up somebody on the street, it was most likely to happen as township dwellers began their journeys to work in the soft, shadowy light of an African morning. The four became so well known for capturing the violence that Living, a Johannesburg magazine, dubbed them "the Bang-Bang Club."
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CARTER, KEVIN
Photographer from South Africa (left) who covered the war in Rwanda.
He won the Pulitzer price for a photo of a starving boy
(which led to public criticism). He was haunted by depression and nightmares,
turned to wildlife photography, but killed himself.
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| KAFFIR LOVER
"Kaffer" is the dutch/afrikaans word for the black people of South Africa. Same as "nigger" for the black americans. Thus, a "kaffir lover" is someone who sympathizes with the black and was against apartheid.
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| PULITZER PRIZE
Annual award for achievements in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. They have been awarded by the trustees each May since 1917, on the recommendation of an advisory board, with American themes preferred. Fourteen prizes are given in journalism. The prizes in letters are for fiction, drama, poetry, history, biography or autobiography, and general nonfiction, and the music prize was added in 1943. Each is accompanied by $3,000 award.
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