War American

War Photography II:
From Iwo Jima to 9/11
The Firefighters and the American Flag at Ground Zero: Re-Production of a Visual Icon.



The attacks of 11 September 2001 were a series of terrorist attacks that day committed suicide in the United States by members of Al Qaeda jihadist network by sequestering airliners to be hit against several targets and caused the death nearly 3,000 people andinjuring 6,000, as well as destruction of the World Trade Center environment in New York and serious damage to the Pentagon, in the State of Virginia, being the episode that preceded the war in Afghanistan and the adoption by the U.S. government and its allies of the policy called war against terrorism.

James Nachtwey, “Shattered.”

Biography:
Nachtwey started working as a newspaperphotographer in 1976 at the Albuquerque Journal. In 1980, he moved to New York and began working as a freelance photographer. In 1981, Nachtwey covered his first overseas assignment in Northern Ireland illustrating civil strife. He has documented a variety of armed conflicts and social issues, spending time in South Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Unionshooting pictures of war, conflict and famine, and images of socio-political issues (pollution, crime and punishment) in Western Europe and the United States. He currently lives in New York City.
In 1994, Nachtwey was covering the upcoming elections in South Africa, the first non-racial ones in decades. As an associate of the Bang-Bang Club, he was at the scene when Ken Oosterbroek was killed andGreg Marinovich was seriously injured.
Nachtwey had been injured previously in his work, but it was during his extensive coverage of the United States invasion of Iraq that he received his first combat injury. As Nachtwey, along with Time correspondent Michael Weisskopf rode in the back of a Humvee with the United States Army "Tomb Raiders" Survey Platoon, an insurgent threw a grenade into thevehicle. Weisskopf grabbed the grenade to throw it out of the humvee, but it exploded in his hand. Two soldiers were injured in the explosion, along with the Time journalists. Nachtwey managed to take several photographs of medic Billie Grimes treating Weisskopf before passing out. Both journalists were airlifted to Germany and later to hospitals in the United States. Nachtwey recovered sufficientlyto return overseas to cover the tsunami in Southeast Asia of December 26, 2004.[3]
Nachtwey has worked with Time as a contract photographer since 1984. He worked for Black Star from 1980 until 1985 and was a member of Magnum Photos from 1986 until 2001. In 2001, he was a founding member of the VII Photo Agency (he disassociated from VII in August 2011)[4]
Nachtwey was present during theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, and produced a well known related body of work. He also compiled a photo essay on the effects of the Sudan conflict on civilians.

"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."
-James Nachtwey-

"SHATTERED"

The September 11, 2001 James Nachtweyawoke, as the entire city of New York, with a big start. It was 8:43 in the morning when the first plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center and foreshadowed what was to come. When watching the first line of smoke over the sky of Manhattan reporter quickly gathered up his team and ran to the dock where the ferry from Staten Island began the exit maneuver.
He crossed the bridge byseconds. That was the last ferry terminal entered the Battery before they cut communications with the other island of the Hudson River. Natchwey was for 48 hours in a trance photographing what appeared to be an unthinkable tragedy. James Nachtwey images were immediately published by Time magazine in a special photo essay as the name of "Shattered."


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