[Leica] James Nachtwey's "Inferno"

[bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)]

I know that's why he did it; I just happen to think that it was a mistake.
That collection of photos would have a physical presence, and be hard to
look at, if they were 4x6s. I think this was a case of Nachtwey - for whom I
have the greatest respect - succumbing to the the belief of many
photographers that "if it's not good enough if it's not big enough." ;-)


On 3/30/06 7:48 AM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:

> Huh? There was a forward and intro? ;-)
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of R.
> Clayton McKee
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] James Nachtwey's "Inferno"
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> 
> If you take the time to read the intro and forewords (yeah, right) he
> mentions that the size is a deliberate decision... to make the book
> so large it had an actual physical presence and would be hard to
> ignore or NOT notice.
> 
> Like looking at ANY of Salgado's work, or for that matter Magnum
> _Stories_, I can only look at it for a few minutes at a stretch
> before I'm just brain dead and have to put it down and decompress for
> a bit.
> 
> At the moment my copy lives at my mother's place in Fort Worth, safe
> out of the reach of passing hurricanes.
> 
> It'll come home on the next ferry run.
> 
> 
> 
> On 29 Mar 2006 at 21:45, B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> It's work of astounding quality, but I find the book overwhelming -
>> many of
>> the images are too big to be viewed as close as they must be in a book,
> and 
>> there are just too many of them for a single book.
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