cover image Schindler's List: Images of the Steven Spielberg Film

Schindler's List: Images of the Steven Spielberg Film

. Newmarket Press, $15 (80pp) ISBN 978-1-55704-627-7

Marking the ten-year anniversary of the release of Schindler's List, this small-format book of photographs is a powerful testament to the film's conflicting emotions of hate, cruelty, fear, love, loyalty and bravery. The b&w images essentially tell the story of Schindler's List and they're devastatingly potent. They depict Jews entering concentration camps laden with valises; a guard looking out over the camp, casually smoking a cigarette while his rifle rests against his shoulder; tearful families desperately clinging to one another. The book often feels like a work of strikingly resonant photojournalism. As well it should--in the production notes, Spielberg comments,""I tried to be as close to a journalist in recording this re-creation, more than being a filmmaker trying to heighten the suspense or action or the pathos.""