For anyone out there reading this with NetFlix, I would humbly direct you to the Documentary portion of their online cataogue, and request your indulgence concerning the movie:
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
It's a movie about James Nachtwey, who's pictures I've followed since his work in 91 or 92 on Romanian Orphanages. When I was in the 11th or 12th grade I had ripped the photos oazine and had slid them inside my notebooks for school... the kind with plastic on the fron where you can slide coversheets in. I used to walk around with them and always set them right side up so that no one could miss the images. I also had older pictures from magazines... images from Selma and Little Rock during the desegregation struggles of the late 50s and 60s, but for some reason it was ust important to me to put them out and kind of force them upon people. Good or bad, that's just what I was partly about...
And maybe that's what this is about. I just think folks should see certain things. Our lives are filled with so much imagery, so much of existence, but most of it only that which we deem aesthetically pleasing or that which others deem "safe" or other terms. War Photographer isn't safe. It will probably cause you problems. It will most likely alter your mood. But i think you should see it. I think you would be glad that you did.
If it's unattainable, then perhaps your local huge-ass corporate-chain bookstore will have a copy of INFERRNO by James Nachtwey, in which case I would offer up the possibility of sitting down with that. If you do decide to track that down, keep in mind that every image in that book was photographed in less than one decade. Less than ten years. By one person... only able to be in one spot and any given time. And it will alter your mood. It will cause you problems. And then you'll have to solve them. But somehow, I still think that its a good thing.
hope you are well,
P.
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
It's a movie about James Nachtwey, who's pictures I've followed since his work in 91 or 92 on Romanian Orphanages. When I was in the 11th or 12th grade I had ripped the photos oazine and had slid them inside my notebooks for school... the kind with plastic on the fron where you can slide coversheets in. I used to walk around with them and always set them right side up so that no one could miss the images. I also had older pictures from magazines... images from Selma and Little Rock during the desegregation struggles of the late 50s and 60s, but for some reason it was ust important to me to put them out and kind of force them upon people. Good or bad, that's just what I was partly about...
And maybe that's what this is about. I just think folks should see certain things. Our lives are filled with so much imagery, so much of existence, but most of it only that which we deem aesthetically pleasing or that which others deem "safe" or other terms. War Photographer isn't safe. It will probably cause you problems. It will most likely alter your mood. But i think you should see it. I think you would be glad that you did.
If it's unattainable, then perhaps your local huge-ass corporate-chain bookstore will have a copy of INFERRNO by James Nachtwey, in which case I would offer up the possibility of sitting down with that. If you do decide to track that down, keep in mind that every image in that book was photographed in less than one decade. Less than ten years. By one person... only able to be in one spot and any given time. And it will alter your mood. It will cause you problems. And then you'll have to solve them. But somehow, I still think that its a good thing.
hope you are well,
P.