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Article: Camera man: the late photojournalist Dan Eldon and his Art of Life. (Lives).(Brief Article)
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WHEN JENNIFER NEW, author of the new biography Dan Eldon: The Art of Life, first perused the collages in Eldon's posthumous The Journey Is the Destination in 1997, she was immediately drawn in by what was an extraordinary life.
Eldon was an English-born photojournalist who was raised in Kenya and was stoned to death by a mob in Somalia in July 1993. He was just twenty-two. The artistic memoir he left behind--he was a compulsive collage artist--inspired New and her husband, both ...