Inferno
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (862 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0714838152 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 460 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. They are hard to forget, or forgive. Nachtwey has taken shrapnel and had his hair literally parted by a bullet, but he's never lost his compassionate outrage. Nachtwey's art is meant to force us to face unbearable facts. --Tim Appelo. 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. The power of Nachtwey's images transce
Inferno is an evocative visual insight into modern history, bringing it disturbingly close to our consciousness.. This is the only major monograph of humanitarian and photojournalist James Nachtwey, five-time winner of the Robert Capa Medal for Photography. Featuring brutally compassionate photographs taken from 1990-99, inspired by an overwhelming belief in the human possibility of change, this volume is a definitive selection from Nachtwey's astonishing portfolio. It documents today's conflicts and their victims, from Somalia's famine to genocide in Rwanda, from Romania's abandoned orphans and 'irrecoverables' to the lives of India's 'untouchables', from war in Bosnia to conflict in Chechnya
Into the Fire A book that is not for everyone, yet everyone should see it. These are the faces of death and despair, the tears of anti-war, the bravery of war, the fear of not living another day, the fear of living yet another daythe courage, the persistance, the failure to give upthe hurt, the pain, the tears, the angerin the lives that nightmares are made of When you look at the photographs, you will never be the same. Study them. Let them. "Into the Fire" according to Debbie C.. A book that is not for everyone, yet everyone should see it. These are the faces of death and despair, the tears of anti-war, the bravery of war, the fear of not living another day, the fear of living yet another daythe courage, the persistance, the failure to give upthe hurt, the pain, the tears, the angerin the lives that nightmares are made of When you look at the photographs, you will never be the same. Study them. Let them. a case study of human hell this book is intended to make you think. but its so very dark and depressing. I dont leave it on my coffee table as intended and ill probably never look at it again. It will make you realize we have little to complain about. Its a look into the life of hell with no way out.