Inferno by Luc Sante Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Inferno
Book Review: The book everyone needs to see
Summary: 5 Stars
These exquisitely beautiful and painful photographs bear witness to human suffering many of us otherwise might not see. Nachtwey has said it is his responsibility to record these images, and show the world. It is our responsibility as mindful beings to engage with them. This book will broaden your world and invite you to consider your connection to all who inhabit it. To view it is nothing short of a spiritual act.Book Review: The most amazing and moving photojournalism
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first looked at Inferno by James Nachtwey it was hard to believe what I was looking at. The images of the harsh and inhumane conditions in which Romanian ophanes are kept, the starving and impoverished people of Somalia, the battlegrounds and devastion of Bosnia and Chechyna, the social and economic divisions in India, and the terrible images of Rwanda that defy human comprehension. Nachtwey combines amazing artistic abilities that remain in one's mind with the raw and unrefined images of the harshest places in the world. To look at Nachtwey's pictures is more than just looking, but experiencing. When looking at these pictures you experience an intense mixture of emotions from anger, fear, sadness, and struggling to grasp how this acts could be done.
Inferno is a book that everyone needs to both read and see to truely begin to understand what is going on in the world.
Book Review: Um relato dantesco e honesto da nossa época
Summary: 5 Stars
Uma obra obrigatória para quem acompanha o melhor do fotojornalismo nos últimos 50 anos. Um relato duro, profundo e honesto dos horrores criados pelo homem: Romênia, Somália, Índia, Sudão, Bósnia, Ruanda, Zaire, Chechênia e Kosovo.
Ressalte-se a força extrema das composições de James Nachtwey, valorizadas pela encadernação primorosa em capa dura e pelas grandes ampliações em PB.
Um livro forte, mas profundamente necessário para quem quer reconhecer o lado menos poético do nosso tempo.
Book Review: Very strong book, maybe too much for some of us ...
Summary: 4 Stars
Let's start by saying that I am a great admirer of James Nachtwey. I think he is one of the greatest photographers I came across, which knows how to take the greatest and strongest moments of the crazy world out there and to put these frames in front of our eyes.
On the other hand, I did not feel comfortable to take a look in those large prints of bodies, sickness & suffer, although they may did their job by let me feel this way.
The final decision after a couple of days was to sell the book.
I will recommend this book for the people with stronger stomach. This is not fine art, but a very close documentation of what's really going in those countries of war, suffer and hunger.
Book Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars
Nachtwey is my favorite photoreporter, the best of the last 30 years. This book is exceptional.