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 enlarge | Author: James Nachtwey
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Category: Book
List Price: $150.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 120564
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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 Amazingly tragic and beautifully awful August 19, 2007
I have owned this book for roughly four years now and somehow manage to revisit it at least twice a year. The images are hauntingly beautiful. Nachtwey has a real gift for photography, for capturing that perfect image, with the perfect contrast, stark, naked and vivid. I feel as if I have been not merely an onlooker of these devastatingly breathtaking images, but as though I have been there.
Inferno was the first exposure to Nachtwey I had had, and it certainly has not been the last. His work is amazing.
A look at the true horrors of this world! August 3, 2007
Awesome, shocking, disturbing, eye opening, these just begin to describe the feelings and emotions of this book. The photographs of mans inhumanity to his fellow man go beyond those images we see on the nightly news. James Nachtwey shows us the world of war, famine and poverty. It is eye opening. For anyone who collects books of photography, this is a must, but, it is not a coffee table book. This is one that you keep in reserve for those days when you think your life if bad or tough. Take it down from the shelf, open it and realize just how hard it could be!.
Amazing!! Print Quality. May 14, 2007
What can i say.
It's just wonderful print quality most of Photobook which i bouht.
and Large photo is good too.
Um relato dantesco e honesto da nossa época May 11, 2007
Uma obra obrigatoria para quem acompanha o melhor do fotojornalismo nos últimos 50 anos. Um relato duro, profundo e honesto dos horrores criados pelo homem: Romênia, Somalia, India, Sudao, Bosnia, Ruanda, Zaire, Chechênia e Kosovo.
Ressalte-se a força extrema das composiçoes de James Nachtwey, valorizadas pela encadernaçao primorosa em capa dura e pelas grandes ampliaçoes em PB.
Um livro forte, mas profundamente necessario para quem quer reconhecer o lado menos poético do nosso tempo.
 A thought-provoking picture of our world May 2, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a disturbing book. It is considered a classic in the world of news photography. It shows what happens when things go very wrong in our world. It would be nice to say these are all isolated incidences. However, they are not. In spite of talk about "progress", the number of people living in slums in our world is growing. If we were to have a very serious economic or environmental crisis, the pictures in this book could be a vision of the future. The author's work is more well-known in Europe than in the U.S. where such raw images are usually not published in the major media. However, you should look at this book. It will make you think.
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