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Inferno | 
 enlarge | Author: James Nachtwey
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Category: Book
List Price: $150.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 211540
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 460
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.9
Dimensions (in): 15.3 x 11.2 x 2.3
ISBN: 0714838152
Dewey Decimal Number: 070
EAN: 9780714838151
ASIN: 0714838152
Publication Date: January 1, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
Though he is probably the world's most honored recent war photographer, James Nachtwey calls himself an "antiwar photographer," as the preeminent critic Luc Sante notes in his excellent foreword to Inferno, a landmark collection of 382 war-crime photos. Nachtwey has taken shrapnel and had his hair literally parted by a bullet, but he's never lost his compassionate outrage. The stunning images in this huge-format book--brutally abused Romanian orphans, Rwandan genocide victims, a rat-hunter family of Indian Untouchables barbecuing dinner, skeletal dehydration victims in Sudan, the miserable in Bosnia, Chechnya, Zaire, Somalia, and Kosovo--are excruciating to look at, yet impossible to tear your eyes away from. Nachtwey's art is meant to force us to face unbearable facts. Faces are the key: you can't gaze into the eyes of a Romanian toddler tied to a bed, or wired to a primitive "electromagnetic therapy" device, and not grasp the horror more fully than you would by watching a TV news item or reading a newspaper piece. (The book's text explains each photo's context.) Inferno is also a masterpiece in strictly aesthetic terms. The power of Nachtwey's images transcends journalism. Bloody handprints on a living-room wall in Kosovo, the ghostly imprint of a Serb victim's vanished body on a floor, a Hutu with crazed eyes displaying the machete gashes he received for opposing the Tutsis' butchery, a howling orphan in a crib, one eye contracted in anger--these are compositions that depend, like Goya's, on the artist's skill as much as the subject's legitimate claim on our conscience. Nachtwey's photographs make us capable of imagining that it could have happened to us. They are hard to forget, or forgive. --Tim Appelo
Product Description
A document of war and strife during the 1990s, this volume of photographs by the photojournalist James Nachtwey includes dramatic and shocking images of human suffering in Rwanda, Somalia, Romania, Bosnia, Chechnya and India, a well as photographs of the conflict in Kosovo. An essay by the author Luc Sante is included. The book is published to coincide with an exhibition of Nachtwey's work at the International Centre of Photography, New York.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 Wonderful! August 31, 2008
Nachtwey is my favorite photoreporter, the best of the last 30 years. This book is exceptional.
GRAN FOTOGRAFO, GRAN LIBRO January 12, 2008
uN GRAN TRABAJO DE JAMES NATCHWEY, IMAGENES UN POCO DURAS Y QUE DAN QUE PENSAR.
 good November 22, 2007
It's a good book, very large and with very good quality paper. But my book has damaged in the us mail with water and broken corners.
The Truth About Suffering November 22, 2007
Its ironic that I came across this beautiful book the day before Thanksgiving. I will always be grateful and never complain again. Not many will be able to stomach the contents of this groundbreaking work.
God help us all.
An outstanding vision of the sad reality of this world. August 23, 2007
This book is not made to be placed in every hands. But everyone old enough to face the sad reality and the ugly side of the human kind should have a look at it.
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