DelCorso's Gallery by Philip Caputo (1983, Hardcover)

DelCorso's Gallery
by Philip Caputo
Publisher:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Copyright 1983
FIRST EDITION

DELCORSO'S GALLERY:  a row of filing cabinets in a photographer's studio in Soho, cabinets filled with the reality of war in our time:  a pictorial record of the maimed, the massacred, the lost.  For Nicholas DelCorso, these images are his own personal monster, locked away but never left behind.

At thirty-two, Nicholas DelCorso is already a respected photojournalist.  If his temper has won him some powerful enemies, his talent has earned him some choice assignments.  Exploiting his skill with a camera, he's come a long way from the Italian ghetto of his Chicago childhood.

But for Nicholas DelCorso, photography is more than a means of winning praise or earning money.  For DelCorso, it is a crusade.  He uses his camera to wage war on war.  He uses it to record the reality of war.

For three decades, P. X. Dunlop has also recorded war's reality, artistically manipulating images in the darkroom, burning onto the public's mind the shadowed faces of exhaustion, the muscular camaraderie, the tough grit of soldier-heroes.  Not for Dunlop the high-noon glare of DelCorso's "snapshots" with their explicit horrors.  Once he was DelCorso's mentor.  Now he feels betrayed by work he calls pornography.

Competing for the same space and the same prizes, it was inevitable that two men of such contrary visions would one day make war on one another.

Beginning with the final days of the American presence in Vietnam and ending in the sordid alleys of war-ravaged Beirut amid the mutilation wrought by ideology gone made, DelCorso's Gallery brings alive the world of modern warfare's camp followers:  the journalists and photographers who record the disasters of war.  Some have a sense of mission, a few are action junkies, many just see it as a job, giving the stateside deskmen the "bang bang" they demand.  They follow orders, try for beats, cover for each other, and don't think too deeply about the consequences of their work.  Ocassionally, the consequence is death.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover flaps are tanning.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.

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