Salgado Kuwait
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“We must remember that in the brutality of battle another such
apocalypse is always just around the corner.” —Sebastiao SalgadoIn
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 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,
Salgado braved the intense danger, stench, pollution, and scorching
temperatures to capture the ravaged landscape, the air choking on
charred sand and soot, the blistered remains of camels, the sand
littered with cluster bombs, the flames and smoke soaring to the
skies, blocking out the sunlight, dwarfing the oil-soaked
firefighters.The epic monochrome pictures first appeared in The New
York Times Magazine in June 1991 and were subsequently hailed as
one of the photographer’s most captivating—and courageous—bodies of
work. Adding to Salgado’s roster of international accolades, the
series was awarded the Oskar Barnack Award, recognizing outstanding
photography on the relationship between man and the
environment.This signed and limited Collector’s Edition Kuwait: A
Desert on Fire is the first monograph of this astonishing
collection. In grand-scale, museum-quality reproduction, it
presents more than 80 images, interlaid with transparency paper,
and printed with cutting-edge High Definition Skia Photography
technology. This new era of photographic printing allows, for the
first time, all visible elements captured by the camera to transfer
to print, achieving a visible range close to the very limits of
what the human eye can perceive and a new level of
three-dimensionality on the page.Like a breathtaking exhibition in
print, the result is at once a remarkable encounter with one of
Salgado’s landmark series and a major document of global history
and awareness. In its pristine quality, scale, and intensity, it
serves to remind us, in the photographer’s own words, “that in the
brutality of battle another such apocalypse is always just around
the corner.”&,nbsp,First major publication of Salgado’s Kuwaiti
oil wells series. Grand-scale, museum-quality reproduction with
High Definition Skia Photography, allowing all visible components
captured by the camera to be transferred to print. More than 80
images, interlaid with transparency paper. Signed by the
photographer.Collector’s Edition of 1,000 numbered copies (No.
101–1,100), signed by Sebastiao Salgado. Also available in an Art
Edition of 100 copies, each coming with a gelatin silver print
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