once upon a time Bill Simonsen wrote:
> I feel like a fool, I don't recall hearing of this fellow- can you
> point me towards some of his work? (Of course, sometimes I find myself
> stuck back in the Tim Page era!)
>
> -Bill
Bill,
His most recent book is "Inferno", published in 1999, I think.
Here is a link to his profile on the Magnum site:
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Nachtwey.html
Below is his bio from he Magnum site:
American, b.1948
Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts. After he graduated from Dartmouth College
where he studied Art History and Political Science (1966-70), he worked
aboard ships in the Merchant Marine and decided to become a photographer.
While teaching himself his trade, he worked as an apprentice news film
editor and a truck driver.
In 1976 he started as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, and in 1980
moved to New York to begin a career as a freelance magazine photographer.
His first foreign assignment was to cover civil strife in Northern Ireland
in 1981 during the IRA hunger strike.
Since then, he has devoted himself to documenting major international events
as well as covering wars, conflicts and social issues in El Salvador,
Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, India, Sri
Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda,
South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Romania, Brazil, and the United
States.
He has been a contract photographer with Time since 1984, and a full member
of Magnum since 1989. He has had exhibitions at the International Center of
Photography in New York, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, the
Carolinum in Prague, the Hasselblad Center in Sweden and the Canon Gallery
and the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. He has received numerous honors such as
the Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times), the World Press Photo Award
(twice), the International Center of Photography Infinity Award (twice),
Magazine Photographer of the Year (six times), the Leica Award (twice), the
Canon Photo Essayist award and the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic
Photography.
--
Harrison McClary
http://www.mcclary.net
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