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	James Nachtwey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Nachtwey (1948 -) is one of the most influential photojournalists and war photographers of the late 20th century.
		Nachtwey had been injured previously in his work, but it was during his extensive coverage of the United States invasion of Iraq that he received his first combat injury.
		Nachtwey recovered sufficiently to return overseas to cover the Tsunami in Southeast Asia of December 26, 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Nachtwey (726 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation with James Nachtwey- May 16, 2000
		JAMES NACHTWEY: "Inferno" is a record of crimes against humanity that occurred during the final decade of the 20th century.
		JAMES NACHTWEY: This was a picture that was made in a small town in the town of Barbera in the intensive care tent that was set up by a humanitarian organization that had gone there to help relieve the victims of the famine.
		JAMES NACHTWEY: This is a picture of a man who had just been liberated from a Hutu death camp where mainly members of the Tutsi tribe were being incarcerated, being starved, beaten, abused and systematically killed.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/jan-june00/nachtwey_5-16.html (1007 words)

	James Nachtwey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Nachtwey is within a rifle butt's reach, sitting upright, his finger poised above the shutter as if on a trigger.
		In his two decades reporting from the front line, Nachtwey -- who was raised in Leominster, Massachusetts -- has been shot at and hit by shrapnel; he has contracted dengue fever and been the target of mob fury.
		JAMES NACHTWEY: "I don't want to be sensationalist with these images, but there's nothing in good taste about a famine or genocide or ethnic cleansing.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/00/03/09/JAMES_NACHTWEY.html (2692 words)

	James Nachtwey
		The Hood Museum of Art presents this exhibition of approximately twenty photographs by world-renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey, who will be on campus as a Montgomery Fellow during the spring term in conjunction with the thirteenth annual Humanities Institute, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
		Nachtwey, a Dartmouth graduate, is a member of the institute.
		The exhibition is an excerpted version of James Nachtwey: Testimony, organized by the International Center for Photography, New York, with support from Canon USA and Time, Inc. Its presentation at the Hood is made possible by the Harrington Gallery Fund.
	hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu /exhibitions/previous/nachtwey/jamesnachtwey.html (168 words)

	Renowned photographer James Nachtwey helps focus attention on Darfur Crisis \| WFP - Newsroom - News - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		James Nachtwey, who has been a contract photographer for TIME magazine since 1984, lent his eye and his reputation to help create a WFP public service announcement (PSA) for television, featuring eight powerful fl and white images he shot on his most recent assignment to the conflict-torn region.
		In the PSA, Nachtwey stresses that "right now in Sudan a tragedy is unfolding before our eyes," and appeals to the public to help the agency in its effort to reduce the number of hungry during the ongoing crisis, which is threatening the very existence of almost 2 million people.
		James Nachtwey has been a photographer for more than 30 years and has won countless prestigious awards, including Magazine Photographer of the Year (seven times); the Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times); the World Press Photo Award (twice); and the W.Eugene Smith Memorial Grant in Humanistic Photography and others.
	www.wfp.org /english?ModuleID=137&Key=1158 (460 words)

	JAMES NACHTWEY_E1_01
		Nachtwey understands the power of the universal language of photography to capture an image with meaning and to communicate the truth and essence of the moment.
		James Nachtwey is the subject of Christian Frei's documentary, "War Photographer," which was nominated for an Academy award in 2001.
		James Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College (1966-1970), where he studied art history and political science.
	www.faheykleingallery.com /featured_artists/nachtwey/nachtwey_e1_01.htm (814 words)

	"Inferno": A Book Review by J. Ross Baughman / The Digital Filmmaker /
		In the opus portfolio "Inferno," James Nachtwey sheds his mantle as the premiere photojournalist of war and its victims during the last 20 years, and proves that he should instead be regarded as an artist.
		Nachtwey invokes a quote from Dante's "Inferno" to remind us of the living circles of Hell through which he volunteers to descend.
		Nachtwey got his first taste of war on 2 February 1982, when he took a piece of shrapnel in his thigh from a landmine.
	digitalfilmmaker.net /Nachtwey/nachtwey.html (865 words)

	James Nachtwey by Peter Howe - The Digital Journalist
		Nachtwey’s familiarity with life-threatening situations played an important part in him being able to survive the collapse and to continue to work.
		The first day that Nachtwey’s pictures were posted on time.com there were over two million page views, the equivalent of more than six hundred thousand people in just one twenty four hour period.
		Throughout the interview the level of stress and exhaustion was apparent on Nachtwey’s face, in his body language and in his voice.
	digitaljournalist.org /issue0110/nachtwey_intro.htm (2269 words)

	Dartmouth News - Award-winning photographer James Nachtwey to visit Dartmouth - 03/19/02
		Nachtwey is also the focus of the recent film "War Photographer," one of five nominees in this year's Academy Award category for feature documentary.
		In conjunction with Nachtwey's visit to campus, a selection of his photographs from the last ten years will be on view at Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art from March 26 through May 12.
		Nachtwey's visit to Dartmouth is funded by the Montgomery Endowment, established in 1977 by the late Chicago attorney Kenneth F. Montgomery '25 and his wife, Harle, to "provide for the advancement of the academic realm of the college.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~news/releases/2002/march/031902.html (453 words)

	CBC: Beyond Words - The Photographers - James Nachtwey
		James Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and studied Art History and Political Science at Dartmouth College.
		Nachtwey has been a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1984 and has worked on extensive photographic essays in all over Central America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
		Nachtwey is based in New York, but typically spends eight months of the year on the road.
	www.cbc.ca /beyondwords/nachtwey.html (900 words)

	AIGA : VOICE2
		Magnum member and Time contract photographer James Nachtwey addresses the crises of the modern world with images distinctly marked by humanitarian sensitivity.
		Nachtwey’s fearlessness and total dedication to his profession have earned him dozens of awards, including five Robert Capa Gold Medals.
		In many cases, such as in his pictures of the 1992 Somalian famine, Nachtwey has been able to discern a direct relationship between his documentation of a problem and the arrival of relief.
	voiceconference.aiga.org /speakers/nachtwey_james.html (160 words)

	LA Weekly - The Eyes of Perpetual War
		James Nachtwey has spent a lifetime on the frontlines of the world’s worst calamities.
		Standing with an interpreter at a graveyard, Nachtwey heard the wailing of a woman, grieving the recent death of her brother, a civilian killed in a Taliban rocket attack.
		Nachtwey studied art history and political science at Dartmouth, graduating cum laude in 1970, and then spent six months as a cook with the merchant marines.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/03/01/features-appleford.php (1738 words)

	Canon U.S.A-Press Release Schedule
		Nachtwey uses his graphic images of death and destruction to both highlight the evils of modern conflict and stress the collective responsibility we bear to better our world.
		Nachtwey is arguably one of the world's greatest contemporary photojournalists.
		Nachtwey's most recent publication, Inferno, represents his personal journey through the dark reaches of the last decade of the twentieth century.
	www.usa.canon.com /templatedata/pressrelease/00_may_nachtwey_exp_of_light.prt (499 words)

	War photographer James Nachtwey graces Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Nachtwey is at a sulfur mine in Kwah Ijen, documenting the daily horrendous conditions the miners endure for pittance in pay.
		Nachtwey said his subjects' sense of hope under the direst of situations keeps him going as a freelance photographer for Time magazine, despite the horrors he has personally witnessed.
		Nachtwey's narratives have taken him to some of the most hostile areas of the globe, recently Iraq where he documented a platoon of American soldiers for Time magazine two years ago.
	www.sanfranciscosentinel.com /news_in_brief/james_nachtwey_060512.shtml (1311 words)

	James Nachtwey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		James Nachtwey is perhaps the hottest war photographer on the contemporary scene.
		In this exhibition Nachtwey is represented by approximately 40 images in both fl and white and color.
		Nachtwey’s eye for the "iconic" is as single-minded and dogged as the homing head of a heat-seeking missile.
	artscenecal.com /ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2005/Articles0905/JNachtweyA.html (809 words)

	Amazon.com: War Photographer: DVD: Christian Frei,James Nachtwey,Christiane Amanpour,Hans-Hermann Klare,Christiane ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Nachtwey in flesh and blood, at a slide presentation at UC Berkeley in 2000, the thing that struck me immediately was his soft tone and his sparse comments about his photographs.
		James Nachtwey is one of the few photographers who are able to grab people by instinct rather by intellect.
		For aspiring documentary photographers as myself, James Nachtwey is a beacon of hope on behalf of the "concerned photography tradition".
	www.amazon.com /War-Photographer-Christian-Frei/dp/B0000C825I (2058 words)

	Amazon.com: Inferno: Books: James Nachtwey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Nachtwey allows his truthful images to speak for themselves,from the barren lands,the forsaken lands of the world that god has forgotten about.Somalia,Sudan,Rwanda,India,Bosnia,Chechyna,but it really doesn't matter where this occurs, the fact that it does right now, everyday.
		The images of the harsh and inhumane conditions in which Romanian ophanes are kept, the starving and impoverished people of Somalia, the battlegrounds and devastion of Bosnia and Chechyna, the social and economic divisions in India, and the terrible images of Rwanda that defy human comprehension.
		Nachtwey combines amazing artistic abilities that remain in one's mind with the raw and unrefined images of the harshest places in the world.
	www.amazon.com /Inferno-James-Nachtwey/dp/0714838152 (1583 words)

	Interview with James Nachtwey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This interview with James Nachtwey was conducted in the Spring of 2000.
		It's hard to imagine a photography book more searing and influential than James Nachtwey's "Inferno." Published in April 2000, the book was a wake-up call to a media-jaded world.
		A collection of Nachtwey's photojournalism from the last decade of the 20th century, it told of recent wars, famines, crushing poverty and the aftermath of horrific acts of cruelty.
	www.ee.columbia.edu /~sarahjc/Nachtwey.html (2726 words)

	Amazon.ca: Inferno: Books: James Nachtwey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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.
		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.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0714838152 (1015 words)

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		James Nachtwey ist der berühmteste Kriegsfotograf unserer Zeit.
		La grandezza di James Nachtwey, ciò che lo rende un autore e non un semplice reporter di guerra è che nelle sue fotografie c'è sempre un'attenta composizione.
		Invece le fotografie di Nachtwey sono sempre chiare e precise testimonianze e l'attenzione alla composizione diventa il mezzo con cui Nachtwey informa, comunica in modo efficace quello che ha visto, con la partecipazione di chi assiste alla sofferenza umana e vuole combatterla.
	www.adhikara.com /james_nachtwey.htm (1070 words)

	life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Images from the Vietnam War and the American Civil Rights movement had a powerful effect on him and were instrumental in his decision to become a photographer.
		His first foreign assignment was to cover civil strife in Northern Ireland in 1981 during the IRA hunger strike.
		He is a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Arts.
	www.jamesnachtwey.com /bio.html (246 words)

	EVENT CANCELLED: Nelson Social Justice Lecture: Photojournalist James Nachtwey
		Nachtwey was a member of Magnum Photos, Inc., from 1986 until 2001 and has been associated with TIME magazine since 1984.
		Known for his powerful images of war, AIDS, famine, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Nachtwey has traveled the globe, capturing images of conflict and war that are arresting and powerfully evocative, often inspiring and hopeful.
		Several of Nachtwey’s books are available in the Museum Store, including Inferno ($150.00), as well as the In Our Time exhibition catalogue($49.95), which includes work by Nachtwey.
	www.portlandmuseum.org /Content/1197.shtml (266 words)

	On Being a Press Photographer (Visit the Getty)
		Find out what it's like to be the person behind the camera from James Nachtwey, who has photographed headline news around the world for thirty years.
		Nachtwey will discuss his experiences in conjunction with the current exhibitions Pictures for the Press and Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee.
		James Nachtwey devotes himself to documenting wars, conflicts, and critical social issues throughout the world.
	www.getty.edu /visit/events/nachtwey_lecture.html (202 words)

	James Nachtwey, Chris Rainier Join Elite Epson Stylus Pros Program
		Since then, Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues around the world so that these events are not forgotten and hopefully will not be repeated.
		"James and Chris are both leaders in capturing the often harsh realities of the human experience through their images," said Dan Steinhardt, marketing manager, Epson America.
		Furthermore, 16 Stylus Pros, including Nachtwey and Rainier, will be signing original prints of one of their images, printed on the Epson Stylus(R) Pro 4800, and discussing how Epson technology gives them unprecedented creative control and print quality.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-18-2005/0004171934&EDATE= (671 words)

	Apple - Pro/Photo - James Nachtwey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		That the quote could be appended to all or parts of almost any Nachtwey book or photo essay, testifies both to his determined witness of the human condition in its direst circumstances and to his clean address of the horror he finds, pulling our eyes with commanding technique.
		After graduating with degrees in Art History and Political Science from Dartmouth College, Nachtwey was inspired by images from the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement to teach himself photography while working various jobs as Merchant Marine, assistant news editor and truck driver.
		Although Nachtwey’s work documenting AIDS in Africa served as an inspiration for the “A Day in the Life of Africa” project, Nachtwey was unable to attend the shoot.
	www.apple.com /pro/photo/nachtwey (398 words)

	James Nachtwey's "Inferno" - Salon
		Indeed, it's a guided tour of hell, or at least the past 10 years of hell as it's been played out in places like Romania, Somalia, India, Sudan, Bosnia, Rwanda, Zaire, Chechnya and Kosovo.
		Nachtwey, born in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1948 (he grew up in Massachusetts), is one of the world's most widely published and abundantly honored photographers.
		He has received the Robert Capa Gold Medal an unprecedented five times, he's a contract photographer for Time, where much of his work is first published, and he's a member of Magnum Photos.
	dir.salon.com /story/people/feature/2000/04/10/inferno/?sid=694603 (835 words)

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