TED中英双语演讲稿My wish_ Let my photographs bear witness.pdfVIP

My wish: Let my photographs bear witness James Nachtwey 2007-04-03 /talks/james_nachtwey_my_wish_let_my_photographs_bear_witness Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 As someone who has spent his entire career trying to be invisible 如果一个人毕生都在幕后工作， standing in front of an audience is a cross between 突然站在台上面对观众 an out-of-body experience and a deer caught in the headlights, 他就会有类似魂魄出窍和手足无措的怯场， so please forgive me for violating one of the TED commandments 所以请您原谅我违反TED戒律 by relying on words on paper, 照着稿子念， and I only hope Im not struck by lightning bolts before Im done. 我希望念完之前，不要被雷劈到（玩笑：违反了TED戒律）。 Id like to begin by talking about some of the ideas that motivated me 首先我先谈一下激发我成为纪实摄影师的几个原因。 to become a documentary photographer. 首先我先谈一下激发我成为纪实摄影师的几个原因。 I was a student in the 60s, a time of social upheaval and questioning, 1960年代我还是个学生，那是个社会充满动乱和质疑的时代， and on a personal level, an awakening sense of idealism. 从个人角度来说，一个理想主义的意识觉醒的时代。 The war in Vietnam was raging; 越战正酣， the Civil Rights Movement was under way; 民权运动正如火如荼， and pictures had a powerful influence on me. 摄影作品对我产生巨大的影响。 Our political and military leaders were telling us one thing, 我们的政治军事领导人告诉我们的是一回事， and photographers were telling us another. 而摄影师告诉我们的却是另一回事。 I believed the photographers, and so did millions of other Americans. 我相信摄影师，其他数百万美国人也相信。 Their images fueled resistance to the war and to racism. 他们的照片刺激了社会的反战和反对种族主义的运动。 They not only recorded history; they helped change the course of history. 他们不仅记录了历史，而且还改变了历史的进程。 Their pictures became part of our collective consciousness 他们的摄影作品成为我们集体意识的一部分 and, as consciousness evolved into a shared sense of conscience, 当集体意识发展成为共识后， change became not only possible, but inevitable. 变革在所难免。 I saw that the free flow of information represented by journalism, 目睹了以新闻业为代表的信息自由流通， specifically visual journalism,