Rwanda
James Nachtwey, American, born 1948
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
Public Policy 41.01, Writing & Speaking Public Policy, Julie Kalish, Spring 2024
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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