Afghanistan / Roland and Sabrina Michaud ; introduction by André Velter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michaud, Roland.

Contributor:

Michaud, Sabrina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afghanistan--Pictorial works.

Afghanistan.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

253 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

Summary:

Once upon a time, before the Soviet invasion and two decades of civil war, Afghanistan stood as a beautiful, if austere, country. Enchanted by the dramatic landscape, two photographers from the West devoted 14 years, from 1964 to 1978, to documenting its rugged charms. From ruined cities covered with desert sands to the Pamir mountains, where caravans of camels walk across frozen rivers in winter, to the Turkestan bazaars along the old Silk Road, Roland and Sabrina Michaud traveled and came to love this ravaged paradise and its proud peoples: Pashtuns, Tadjiks, Hazara farmers, Uzbek horsemen, Kirgiz shepherds, Nuristani mountain dwellers, and Derbiche vagrants.

With the Michauds' evocative photography and text by prizewinning poet and essayist Andre Velter, this striking testimony to the Afghanistan that once was will help readers understand and respect a country now so central to current events.

ISBN:

0810934906

OCLC:

49610969