Photojournalist James Nachtwey ....greatest war photographer of recent decades.

[haagen_dazs]

"Photojournalist James Nachtwey is considered by many to be the greatest war photographer of recent decades. He has covered conflicts and major social issues in more than 30 countries. For the past three decades, James Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues"

http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/84



Watch this powerful touching video
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"Accepting his 2007 TED Prize, photojournalist James Nachtwey talks about his decades as a war photographer. A slideshow of his photos,......"

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/84

 

[rich815]

Perhaps one of the greatest photogs ever, IMO. Thanks for the link Mark!

 

[colyn]

Too bad Larry Burrows isn't here today..

 

[RML]

I went to see the Nachtwey exhibition here in Amsterdam. I was seriously impressed with his earlie work but when I came to the section with his shots from Iraq (the series of the surgeons at work in a field(?) hospital) I wasn't so impressed anymore. Umphteen photos from the same angle, with the same scene, printed on what seemed nothing more than ordinary pc printer paper and printed with his old pc printer. Ulitmate crap, IMO. I also find that his (earlier) work is esthetically very strong but lacks much emotion. I was able to see the Robert Capa and the Nachtwey exhibition within an hour after another and the Capa exhibition clearly wins. Capa's photos have more emotion, more humanity, more intensity than anything I saw on the Nachtwey exhibition.

 

[aizan]

i started disliking nachtwey after his story on soldiers for time magazine. it was for all intents and purposes propaganda for "supporting the troops", i.e. the invasion of iraq. before that, i was just iffy about his attitude on photographing war, especially his assertion that all war photographs are anti-war photographs. this idea is no more applicable to photography than it is to writing, film, painting, or music, and his time story proved it.