Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon
Chronicle Books, August 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good / No Jacket As Issued. Item #255443
ISBN: 0811815862
Dan Eldon lived more in 22 years than most people do in 80y. He traveled through four continents, led expeditions across Africa, wrote a book, worked as a graphic designer in New York, made a film, and became a respected photojournalist -- all before his sudden, violent death in Somalia. This is no ordinary diary; it is an astonishing collage of photographs, drawings, words, maps, clippings, paints, scraps, shards, and trash that reveals his strange and vivid life. The wild trips and weird places, the lovers and late nights, the danger and fun are captured in pages that seem to shiver with passion, opinion, and dark humor. Eldon's journal holds up a pure mirror to both the sickness of the modern world and the fragile happiness of the human condition, and ultimately, reveals the accidental beauty that only a young artist can truly capture.
By the time he was twenty-two, Dan Eldon had led a relief mission across Africa; worked as a graphic designer in New York; studied (intermittently) at four colleges; traveled through Europe, Africa, Japan, and the US; founded a charity for Mozambiquan refugees; directed a film; written a book; started up his own photography business; and become a photojournalist for Reuters news agency, covering the famine and civil war in Somalia. There, in 1993, he was killed in an eruption of mob violence while on assignment. In a world of rules and regularity, Eldon was a renegade, a risk-taker, and an adventurer. But, despite all his travels, he knew that the interior landscape is the only one truly worth exploring, and this is the journey he dedicated himself to recording. His is no ordinary journal; it is an astonishing seventeen-volume collage of photos, drawings, words, maps, clippings, paint, scraps, shards, and trash that reveals his strange and vivid life. 'The Journey is the Destination' offers a selection of pages from these extraordinary journals, at once the vision of an artist in his prime and the unrestrained outpourings of a young man just beginning to live. By the time he was 22, Dan Eldon had led a relief mission across Africa; worked as a graphic designer in New York; studied at four colleges; traveled through Europe, Africa, Japan and the U.S.; founded a charity for Mozambiquan refugees; directed a film; written a book; started up his own photography business; and become a photojournalist for Reuters new agency, covering the famine and civil war in Somalia. There, in 1993, he was killed in an eruption of violence while on assignment. This book offers a selection of pages from Dan's 17 extraordinary journals, at once the vision of an artist in his prime and the unrestrained outpourings of a young man just beginning to live. Full-color throughout. First edition with full number line. Pictoral boards and endpapers. Packed with colored photographs, collages and a few inserts. Very minor shelf wear.
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