The New PDN Is Out

This week's PDN offers a fair bit of decent reading--even the free stuff. Up top is the sad story about a New York photog being held in Iraq.

Micah Garen, a New York-based documentary photographer and filmmaker kidnapped last week in Iraq, has been threatened with execution by his captors if U.S. forces do not pull out from Najaf. A video shown on the Al Jazeera TV network depicted a man thought to be Garen kneeling in front of hooded militants armed with rifles and rocket-propelled-grenade launchers.

There is also a fine tribute to Carl Mydans who passed away last week.

Photojournalist and war correspondent Carl Mydans, one of the original five photographers hired to shoot for the launch of Life magazine, died at his home in Westchester County, New York, on August 16. He was 97. Among his best known images was his photo of General Douglas MacArthur wading ashore to Luzon in the Philippines in 1945.