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September 11, 2001, New York: A Photo Essay
- The South Atlantic Quarterly
- Duke University Press
- Volume 101, Number 2, Spring 2002
- pp. 337-348
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September 11, 2001, New York:
A Photo-Essay
James Nachtwey
I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated." So wrote James Nachtwey in his afterword to Inferno, a book of what he calls his antiwar photographs of people devastated by war, corruption, and famine.
Just minutes after the first plane hit the north tower, Nachtwey was on the roof of his building, a few blocks from the World Trade Center, camera in hand. By the time the second plane hit, he had made his way down to the scene of the attack, in time to witness the collapse of the towers and its aftermath.
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James Nachtwey has been a contract photographer with Time magazine since 1984. He has had solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Palazzo Esposizione in Rome, El Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the Carolinum in Prague, among others. He has received numerous honors such as the Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times), the Leica Award (twice), the Bayeaux Award for War Correspondents (twice), the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, and the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant in Humanistic Photography. He has published numerous collections, including Inferno (1999) and A World at War: Photographs, 1981–1988. He is a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has an honorary doctorate of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Arts.
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