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James Nachtwey
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... ” With this epigraph James Nachtwey’s new book, also duly titled “Inferno,” begins. Nachtwey, a contract photographer for Time, and “one of the world’s most widely published and abundantly honored photographers,” is renowned for his photographs of war and “civil strife. ... ”
Nachtwey’s vision, or artistic goal, as he describes it, is one of “social awareness, not something for the sake of photography itself.” “The primary function of my photographs,” Nachtwey states, “is to be in mass-circulation publications – during the time that the events are happening. ... ”
As such, Nachtwey, despite numerous awards, considers himself a photojournalist more than an artist.
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Title: James Nachtwey
Words: 497
Rating: None
Pages: 2
submitted by: aznmillionaire
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