London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1999. 480pp; b&w plates. Folio. Black cloth, titled in red and black; no dust jacket, as issued. Light shelfwear; moderate toning to leaves. Very good.
First edition of this important photobook by American photojournalist James Nachtwey (b. 1948); a candid and frequently brutal depiction of human suffering, with a loose thematic link to Dante's Inferno; black-and-white images shot in such war- and famine-zones as Somalia, Sudan, Bosnia, Rwanda, Chechnya, Kosovo, etc. With an introductory essay by Luc Sante, and notes on the photographs at rear.
