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Sebastiao Salgado. Kuwait. A Desert on Fire
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We must remember that in the brutality of battle another such apocalypse is always just around the corner. -Sebastiao 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, Sebastiao Salgado traveled to Kuwait to witness the crisis firsthand. The ... Read more
We must remember that in the brutality of battle another such apocalypse is always just around the corner. -Sebastiao 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, Sebastiao Salgado traveled to Kuwait to witness the crisis firsthand. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taschen GmbH
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
2095g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836561259
SKU
V9783836561259
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Ref
99-5
About Sebastiao Salgado
Sebasti o Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos. In 1994 he and his wife L lia created Amazonas Images, which exclusively handles his work. Salgado's photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Other Americas (1986), Sahel, ... Read more
Reviews for Sebastiao Salgado. Kuwait. A Desert on Fire
A collection of 83 hauntingly beautiful black-and-white photographs taken at some risk to Salgado himself.