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Kabul, Afghanistan. 1996. Jaede Maiwand. Children Playing on an Abandoned Tank.
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Children Playing on an Abandoned Tank, Kabul, Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan. 1996. Jaede Maiwand. Children Playing on an Abandoned Tank.
James Nachtwey (American, born in 1948)
1996
Medium/Technique
Photograph, gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 32.7 x 47.94 cm (12 7/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 40.6 x 50.5 cm (16 x 19 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 40.6 x 50.5 cm (16 x 19 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund for Photography
Accession Number2000.667
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographs
American photographer James Nachtwey was a member of the Magnum photo agency. As a young man, Nachtwey was inspired to become a photojournalist after experiencing the power of the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement images produced during the 1960s. His specialty became the documentation of strife and conflict all over the world, whether in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the Sudan, Iraq, or Afghanistan. Nachtwey thinks of his photographs as testimonies to the horrors of war he has witnessed and is particularly drawn to record the impact of strife on children. In this beautifully composed but disturbing image, young boys' legs dangle above a bleak Kabul street from their perch atop an abandoned tank.
InscriptionsVerso, in black ink, signature of the artist and date: James Nachtwey 3/14/00
ProvenanceThe artist; Magnum Photos, Inc., New York; from whom purchased by MFA, June 2000.
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