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Kuwait : a desert on fire = eine Wüste in Flammen = désert en feu / Sebastião Salgado ; concept and design/konzeption und gestaltung/concept et réalization, Lélia Wanick Salgado.
Fine Arts Library TR820.6 .S25 2016
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salgado, Sebastião, 1944- photographer, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Photographs. Selections
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Salgado, Sebastião, 1944-.
- Salgado, Sebastião.
- Salgado, SebastiaÌo, 1944-2025.
- War photography--Kuwait.
- War photography.
- Oil wells--Fires and fire prevention--Kuwait--Pictorial works.
- Oil wells.
- Oil wells--Fires and fire prevention.
- Kuwait.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 205 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 x 33 cm
- Other Title:
- Sebastião Salgado : Kuwait
- Desert on fire
- Wüste in flammen
- Désert en feu
- Place of Publication:
- Cologne, Germany : Taschen, [2016]
- Language Note:
- Text in English, German, and French.
- Summary:
- Sebastião Salgado documents the torched Kuwaiti oil wells. 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 , sending billowing black clouds over the region and thousands of tons of nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
- Notes:
- Chiefly illustrated.
- Contains:
- Salgado, Sebastião, 1944-2025. Photographs. Selections
- Salgado, Sebastião, 1944- Photographs. Selections. German.
- Salgado, Sebastião, 1944- Photographs. Selections. French.
- ISBN:
- 9783836561259
- 3836561255
- OCLC:
- 961155112
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