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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- Salgado Sebastiao
- Signed
- Yes
- Book Series
- Kuwait
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- Arabic
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- Collector's Edition, Luxury Edition, Limited Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Type
- Picture Book
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Illustrated
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Kuwait
- ISBN
- 9783836561259
- Book Title
- Sebastião Salgado. Kuwait. a Desert on Fire
- Item Length
- 1in
- Publisher
- Taschen
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 11.8in
- Genre
- Photography, Technology & Engineering
- Topic
- Individual Photographers / Monographs, Subjects & Themes / Historical, Photojournalism, Photoessays & Documentaries, Petroleum
- Item Width
- 12.9in
- Item Weight
- 77.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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"We must remember that in the brutality of battle another such apocalypse is always just around the corner." --Sebastião Salgado In January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein's troops retaliated with an inferno. At some 700 oil wells and an unspecified number of oil-filled low-lying areas they ignited vast, raging fires, creating one of the worst environmental disasters in living memory. As the desperate efforts to contain and extinguish the conflagration progressed, Sebastião Salgado traveled to Kuwait to witness the crisis firsthand. The conditions were excruciating. The heat was so vicious that Salgado's smallest lens warped. A journalist and another photographer were killed when a slick ignited as they crossed it. Sticking close to the firefighters, and with characteristic sensitivity to both human and environmental impact, Salgado captured the terrifying scale of this "huge theater the size of the planet" the ravaged landscape; the sweltering temperatures; the air choking on charred sand and soot; the blistered remains of camels; the sand still littered with cluster bombs; and the flames and smoke soaring to the skies, blocking out the sunlight, dwarfing the oil-coated firefighters. Salgado's epic pictures first appeared in the New York Times Magazine in June 1991 and were subsequently awarded the Oskar Barnack Award, recognizing outstanding images on the relationship between man and the environment. Kuwait: A Desert on Fire is the first monograph of this astonishing series. Like Genesis, Exodus, and The Children, it is as much a major document of modern history as an extraordinary body of photographic work.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taschen
ISBN-10
3836561255
ISBN-13
9783836561259
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229584906
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sebastião Salgado. Kuwait. a Desert on Fire
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Photographers / Monographs, Subjects & Themes / Historical, Photojournalism, Photoessays & Documentaries, Petroleum
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Photography, Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1in
Item Height
11.8in
Item Width
12.9in
Item Weight
77.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tr820.6
Photographed by
Salgado, Sebastião
Edition Description
Multilanguage Edition
Reviews
These images, many of which have never been published, demonstrate Salgado's ability to go beyond the limits of news photography and create powerful and lasting artworks., ...at once a remarkable encounter with one of Salgado's landmark series and a major document of global geo-political history and environmental awareness., A collection of 83 hauntingly beautiful black-and-white photographs taken at some risk to Salgado himself.
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes
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