A Family Album: American Soldiers at War – NYTimes.com

Tim Hetherington’s “Infidel” (Chris Boot Ltd., 2010) is more of a family album than a traditional photojournalism book. There are of course powerful images of life for a platoon in the Korengal valley in Afghanistan that Hetherington and Sebastian Junger documented in the film “Restrepo.” But there are also thorough catalogs of the soldiers’ tattoos, their official Army ID photos and the magazine centerfolds in their barracks, and remarkably revealing interviews with seven of the soldiers. The book stands on its own, separate from the movie.