![]() ![]() ![]() "Shutterbabe," which will be serialized in Talk magazine beginning in February, doesn't transcend this genre indeed, Kogan's American chauvinism is staggering. The chapter on her stint covering the Soviet Union's 1989 war in Afghanistan, for example, is titled "Pascal," after the dashing but abusive French photographer with whom she traveled.Įqually troublesome is the book's indisputable membership in the already overcrowded Ivy League travelogue genre, in which foreign cultures, viewed through the eyes of a sheltered North American college graduate, become more bizarre and scary than you'd even imagine. ![]() Then there's the regrettable format: Chapters are named after Kogan's lovers. Some of those reasons are superficial, such as the book's appalling title, which requires no further discussion here. $24.95 There's no shortage of reasons to hate "Shutterbabe," Deborah Copaken Kogan's memoir of her four years as a photojournalist in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. ![]()
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