Rwanda

James Nachtwey, American, born 1948

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1994

Gelatin silver print

11/30

Image: 12 15/16 × 19 1/16 in. (32.8 × 48.4 cm)

Sheet: 16 3/8 × 19 7/8 in. (41.6 × 50.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Sondra and Charles Gilman Jr. Foundation Fund

©James Nachtwey Archive, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth

2006.39

Geography

Place Imaged: Nyanza, Rwanda, Africa

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Poster

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, on reverse, at center: James Nachtwey; inscribed and dated, in graphite, on reverse, lower left: Rwanda-1994 / CJN-091; numbered, in graphite, on reverse, lower center: ED. 11/30

Course History

FILM 7, Social Justice Documentary: From Observer to Catalyst, Kylie Boltin, Winter 2013

SART 30, SART 75, Photography II, III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2013

ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, The Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2013

WRIT 5, Human Rights, Global to Local, Peggy Baum, Winter 2014

THEA 10.1, Human Rights and Performance, Laura Edmondson, Spring 2014

WGST 96, Times of Crisis, Annabelle Martin, Spring 2014

THEA 10.1, COLT 34.2, Human Rights and Performance, Laura Edmondson, Fall 2014

WRIT 5, Quests, Carl Thum, Winter 2015

SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection , Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015

COLT 73.4, Violence, Ayo Coly, Winter 2015

SPAN 65.15, Cameras and Crisis, Martina Broner, Spring 2022

Exhibition History

Alfredo Jaar, The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 8-September 3, 2006.

Art and/as Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 2006-March 11, 2007.

Focus on Photography, Works from 1950 to Today, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 13-March 8, 2009.

Publication History

Annual Report 2005-6, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p.29.

Emily Shubert Burke, Focus on Photography, Works for 1950 to Today, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p. 13-14, no. 27.

John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 190, ill. plate no. 121.

Provenance

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California; sold to present collection, 2006.

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