"My life has unfolded as a continuous conversation with photojournalism," writes Paula Bronstein in the introduction of her new book "Witnessing Life: A Retrospective." She has, she adds, "given herself entirely" to her work in order "to lend a visual voice to those whose stories might otherwise remain typically overlooked by the wider world." The book, being unveiled this week at the Visa pour l'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, "stands as a testament to the places I've immersed myself in, especially Afghanistan and Ukraine, where I have spent considerable time," Bronstein notes.

  While the illustrator Brad Holland may not be a household name, you could say that if anyone represented the power of illustration, over the past half century, to provoke, it would be this artist. Entirely self-taught, he worked his way up from studio rat sweeping floors in a Chicago tattoo parlor to being one of the first in The New York Times’ roster of artists for its new Op Ed page, in 1970. The Watergate scandal offered the kind of material that excited Holland’s co...