James Nachtwey ...
James Nachtwey has been a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1984. His work has been published in National Geographic, Stern, Paris Match, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper's, Geo and Life Magazine.
He is widely exhibited, has received numerous awards and honors and his work hangs in some of the world's most prestigious permanent collections.
Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science (1966-70). 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. He has worked aboard ships in the Merchant Marine, and while teaching himself photography, he was an apprentice news film editor and a truck driver.
In 1976 he started work as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, and in 1980, he 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, Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues. He has worked on extensive photographic essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil and the United States.
He was associated with Black Star from 1980 - 1985 and was a member of Magnum from 1986 until 2001. In 2001, he became one of the founding members of the photo agency, VII.
He is widely exhibited, has received numerous awards and honors and his work hangs in some of the world's most prestigious permanent collections.
Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science (1966-70). 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. He has worked aboard ships in the Merchant Marine, and while teaching himself photography, he was an apprentice news film editor and a truck driver.
In 1976 he started work as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, and in 1980, he 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, Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues. He has worked on extensive photographic essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil and the United States.
He was associated with Black Star from 1980 - 1985 and was a member of Magnum from 1986 until 2001. In 2001, he became one of the founding members of the photo agency, VII.
AWARDS:
- Heinz Foundation Award - for the Arts, 2007
- TED grant, 2007
- Robert Capa Gold Medal, Overseas Press Club of NY - for courage and enterprise, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1994, 1998
- Magazine Photographer of the Year, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992,1994, 2002, 2003
- World Press Foundation Photo of the Year Award, 1992, 1994
- National Magazine Award - for photojournalism, 2004
- Presidents Award, Overseas Press Club of NY - for lifetime achievement, 2008
- Dan David Prize, 2003
- Common Wealth Award - for the arts, 2001
- Leipzig Foundation Award - for promoting freedom of the press, 2004
- Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, Tufts University, 2003
- Martin Luther King Award, Dartmouth College - for promoting human rights, 2002
- Henry Luce Award, Time, Inc. - for corporate leadership, 2002
- Eugene Smith Memorial Grant, 1994
- Infinity Award, International Center of Photography, 1991, 1993, 2000
- Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, 2002
- Special September 11 Award, Overseas Press Club of NY, 2002
- Olivier Rebbot Award, Overseas Press Club of NY for best reportage from overseas, 1992, 1993, 2002
- Daniel Pearl Award, 2004Internews Award for Media Leadership, 2009
- Lou Stoumen Prize, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 2001
- Alfred Eisenstadt Award, 1999
- Bayeaux Award for War Correspondents, France, 1995, 1998
- Lucie Award - for photojournalism, 2004
- Canon Photo Essayist Award, Pictures of the Year, 1992
- Nikon World Image Award, New School for Social Research, 1991
- Leica Award, New School for Social Research, 1989, 1990
- Budapest Photographic Festival Award, 1985
Nikon Award, 1985
- Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
EDUCATION AND HONORARY DEGREES:
- BA cum laude, Dartmouth College, 1970
- Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, 1997
- Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, St. Michael's College, 2005
- Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Art Institute University, 2008
- Montgomery Fellowship, Dartmouth College, 2002
COLLECTIONS:
- Museum of Modern Art
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts
- Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris
- Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Minneapolis Museum of Art
EXHIBITIONS:
- International Center of Photography, New York, 2000, 1989
- Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, 2005
- Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2000
- Palazzo Esposizione, Rome, 2001
- Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 2001
- United Nations Headquarters, New York, 2006
- Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, 2007
- FOAM, Amsterdam, 2008
- Russell Rotunda, U.S. Capitol Building Complex, Washington D.C., 2009
- Max Planck Institute, Berlin, 2009
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Conference, Bangkok, 2008
- Pacific Health Summit, Seattle, 2009
- Culturgest, Lisbon, 2002
- La Laboratoire, Paris, 2008
- Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2007
- Art Museum of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 2004
- Mito Art Tower, Mito, Japan, 2005
- House of Photography, Moscow, 2006
- 401 Projects, New York, 2006
- Seedam Kulturcentrum, Zurich, 2005
- C/O Gallery, Berlin, 2004
- LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2008, 2009
- Stadtische Museen, Jena, Germany, 2005
- International Forum, Tokyo, 1997
- Carolinum, Prague, 1994
- Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden, 1992
- France Collegiale, Angers Cathedral, Angers, France, 2007
- Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 1997
- University of Salamanca, Spain, 2000
- Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, 2002, 1995
- Literaturhaus, Munich, 2003
- Photo Massan, Goteborg, Sweden, 1993
- Centre Culturel, Abbaye de Neumunster, Luxembourg, 2005
- Fotofo, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2004
- Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, 2002, 2006
- Galerie Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg, 2007, 2008
- Canon Gallery, Amsterdam, 1992
- Galerie La Manege, Berlin, 2000
FILM:
“war photographer” directed by Christian Frei. Nominated for an Academy Award, best documentary, 2001.
Based on the life and work of James Nachtwey.
BOOKS:
“Inferno” 1999
“Deeds of War” 1989
ΠΑΡΑΠΟΜΠΕΣ-ΠΗΓΕΣ:
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Official website:
http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/
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https://www.facebook.com/jamesnachtwey
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Film Portrait of James Nachtwey by Asa Mader
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Picture of the Year 2004
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Accepting his 2007 TED Prize, war photographer James Nachtwey shows his lifes work and asks TED to help him continue telling the story with innovative, exciting uses of news photography in the digital era.
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Film:''James Nachtwey,War Photographer'':
"Every minute I was there, I wanted to flee.
I did not want to see this.
Would I cut and run, or would I deal with
the responsibility of being there with a camera"
(James Nachtwey)
In one of the world's countless crisis
areas, surrounded by suffering, death,
violence and chaos, photographer
James Nachtwey searches for the picture
he thinks he can publish.
A film about a committed, shy man, who
is considered one of the bravest and
most important war photographers of our
time - but hardly fits the cliché of the
hard-boiled war veteran.
A film about the American photographer James Nachtwey, about his motivation, his fears and his daily routine as a war photographer.
If we believe Hollywood pictures, war photographers are all hard-boiled and cynical old troopers.
How can they think about 'exposure time' in the very moment of dread?
Swiss author, director and producer Christian Frei followed James Nachtwey for two years into the wars in Indonesia, Kosovo, Palestine... Christian Frei used special micro-cameras attached to James Nachtwey's photo-camera.
We see a famous photographer looking for the decisive moment. We hear every breath of the photographer. For the first time in the history of movies about photographers,
this technique allowed an authentic insight into the work of a concerned photo-journalist.
War Photographer,2001.
Full Cast & Crew:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309061/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
