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"Time" Publishes Book of Iraqi War Photos

Aired June 16, 2003 - 10:35   ET

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LEON HARRIS, ANCHOR: All right, 35 after the hour now.
While U.S. forces try to restore order in Iraq, some remarkable images from the war have been put together in a special book. "TIME" magazine's "21 Days to Baghdad" hits the store shelves today and "TIME's" picture editor, Mary Ann Golan, joins us now from our New York bureau -- from New York at their studios there -- to talk about this with more on these pictures.

Good to see you, Mary Ann. How are you?

MARY ANN GOLAN, "TIME" PICTURE EDITOR: I'm well, thanks.

HARRIS: All right. Let's get right to the pictures. We want the folks to see as many of these as we can get in this morning. The first one is an Iraqi soldier with a knife. What's this picture all about?

GOLAN: That was a picture taken by James Knockway (ph), one of our contract photographers in Baghdad. They thought they had found a flyer. They found a piece of a parachute and they thought they had a pilot. So they had a bunch of Iraqi soldiers going through the reeds along the banks of the Tigris River, trying to find the flyer that they thought was downed.

HARRIS: All right. Let's go to the second one right away. This one is a boy with his hands up, and this looks like it's in one of those sandstorms around Baghdad.

GOLAN: That was a very interesting -- Christopher Morris was traveling with the Army 3rd I.D. And the little boy was traveling with two male, you know, older people. But they didn't know at that Time who was a combatant and who wasn't and so this little child is just absolutely frightened, because there's two guys with M-16s and they aren't sure what they're dealing with.

HARRIS: That kind of gives you -- that's a great perspective there. Here's another one. This is from inside a bombed out house.

GOLAN: That picture is taken by Uri Kozuraf (ph), also working for "TIME" during the war in Baghdad. And I thought it was so eerily reminiscent of 9/11, of the teacups and unfinished breakfasts and things we saw in lower Manhattan. There's a three little bears statue there and a bag of pears. And it just had this sort of eerie quality that seems reminiscent.

HARRIS: Yes. How about the next one here? This is a green tarp with a woman hiding underneath it.

GOLAN: That was a really interesting situation in the north, taken by photographer Kate Brooks. And the woman -- the people hiding under the tarps were Kurdish refugees from a town called Chamchamal in the north. And they were expecting an attack by Saddam Hussein that never came. So they left their homes and lived up in the mountains there for a week or two during the war.

HARRIS: Our Jane Arraf, who was on just before you showed up, spent a lot of Time up there in Chamchamal.

This next shot here is of a coffin, taken by Uri Kozuraf (ph).

GOLAN: Yes, Uri's picture of the coffins, a reusable coffin, which we thought was, you know, incredibly poignant. A woman had just been buried, and he's carrying the coffin back to reuse it for -- they had burials every hour at this cemetery near Baghdad.

HARRIS: And this next shot is of a little boy who fortunately did not have the same fate. This is -- I believe this is the little boy who was -- the guy who was so famous -- became the famous case. Who suffered the loss of his limbs in a strike on his home.

GOLAN: Yes, he lost his -- almost his entire family. And as a result of "TIME" running that picture, it got a lot of international attention and the child was actually airlifted to Kuwait and is doing very well, is rehabilitating now.

HARRIS: Now finally here, this one, at least finally for us this morning. This is what many have considered to be a signature shot of the final march to Baghdad.

GOLAN: The final march to Baghdad.

HARRIS: This is the statue falling over.

GOLAN: I'm sorry. I didn't realize what image you were looking at. Yes, this was James Knockway was there in Palestine Square. He'd been staying in the Palestine hotel the entire Time. When the statue fell, that was how sort of how we marked the end of the 21 days to Baghdad.

HARRIS: How did -- What kind of thinking went behind the selection of each of these shots? What was it you were looking to trying to get in each one? Is there one single emotion, one single theme?

GOLAN: No, not really a single emotion or a single theme, but we were really trying to find images that would move the readers. There were so many thousands of wonderful pictures taken during the war, and we were incredibly lucky to have some of the most talented photographers in the world working for us. So we put together the ones that we thought really gave you historical import.

HARRIS: I think that's a great idea and it's also a great tribute to those photographers who risked their lives and limbs out there to bring those pictures back to the rest of the world.

Mary Ann Golan, thank you very much.

GOLAN: Thank you.

HARRIS: And good luck with this project. It looks like it is going to be very interesting.

GOLAN: Thank you very much.

HARRIS: Take care.

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Aired June 16, 2003 - 10:35   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, ANCHOR: All right, 35 after the hour now.
While U.S. forces try to restore order in Iraq, some remarkable images from the war have been put together in a special book. "TIME" magazine's "21 Days to Baghdad" hits the store shelves today and "TIME's" picture editor, Mary Ann Golan, joins us now from our New York bureau -- from New York at their studios there -- to talk about this with more on these pictures.

Good to see you, Mary Ann. How are you?

MARY ANN GOLAN, "TIME" PICTURE EDITOR: I'm well, thanks.

HARRIS: All right. Let's get right to the pictures. We want the folks to see as many of these as we can get in this morning. The first one is an Iraqi soldier with a knife. What's this picture all about?

GOLAN: That was a picture taken by James Knockway (ph), one of our contract photographers in Baghdad. They thought they had found a flyer. They found a piece of a parachute and they thought they had a pilot. So they had a bunch of Iraqi soldiers going through the reeds along the banks of the Tigris River, trying to find the flyer that they thought was downed.

HARRIS: All right. Let's go to the second one right away. This one is a boy with his hands up, and this looks like it's in one of those sandstorms around Baghdad.

GOLAN: That was a very interesting -- Christopher Morris was traveling with the Army 3rd I.D. And the little boy was traveling with two male, you know, older people. But they didn't know at that Time who was a combatant and who wasn't and so this little child is just absolutely frightened, because there's two guys with M-16s and they aren't sure what they're dealing with.

HARRIS: That kind of gives you -- that's a great perspective there. Here's another one. This is from inside a bombed out house.

GOLAN: That picture is taken by Uri Kozuraf (ph), also working for "TIME" during the war in Baghdad. And I thought it was so eerily reminiscent of 9/11, of the teacups and unfinished breakfasts and things we saw in lower Manhattan. There's a three little bears statue there and a bag of pears. And it just had this sort of eerie quality that seems reminiscent.

HARRIS: Yes. How about the next one here? This is a green tarp with a woman hiding underneath it.

GOLAN: That was a really interesting situation in the north, taken by photographer Kate Brooks. And the woman -- the people hiding under the tarps were Kurdish refugees from a town called Chamchamal in the north. And they were expecting an attack by Saddam Hussein that never came. So they left their homes and lived up in the mountains there for a week or two during the war.

HARRIS: Our Jane Arraf, who was on just before you showed up, spent a lot of Time up there in Chamchamal.

This next shot here is of a coffin, taken by Uri Kozuraf (ph).

GOLAN: Yes, Uri's picture of the coffins, a reusable coffin, which we thought was, you know, incredibly poignant. A woman had just been buried, and he's carrying the coffin back to reuse it for -- they had burials every hour at this cemetery near Baghdad.

HARRIS: And this next shot is of a little boy who fortunately did not have the same fate. This is -- I believe this is the little boy who was -- the guy who was so famous -- became the famous case. Who suffered the loss of his limbs in a strike on his home.

GOLAN: Yes, he lost his -- almost his entire family. And as a result of "TIME" running that picture, it got a lot of international attention and the child was actually airlifted to Kuwait and is doing very well, is rehabilitating now.

HARRIS: Now finally here, this one, at least finally for us this morning. This is what many have considered to be a signature shot of the final march to Baghdad.

GOLAN: The final march to Baghdad.

HARRIS: This is the statue falling over.

GOLAN: I'm sorry. I didn't realize what image you were looking at. Yes, this was James Knockway was there in Palestine Square. He'd been staying in the Palestine hotel the entire Time. When the statue fell, that was how sort of how we marked the end of the 21 days to Baghdad.

HARRIS: How did -- What kind of thinking went behind the selection of each of these shots? What was it you were looking to trying to get in each one? Is there one single emotion, one single theme?

GOLAN: No, not really a single emotion or a single theme, but we were really trying to find images that would move the readers. There were so many thousands of wonderful pictures taken during the war, and we were incredibly lucky to have some of the most talented photographers in the world working for us. So we put together the ones that we thought really gave you historical import.

HARRIS: I think that's a great idea and it's also a great tribute to those photographers who risked their lives and limbs out there to bring those pictures back to the rest of the world.

Mary Ann Golan, thank you very much.

GOLAN: Thank you.

HARRIS: And good luck with this project. It looks like it is going to be very interesting.

GOLAN: Thank you very much.

HARRIS: Take care.

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