{"product_id":"sebastiano-salgado-kuwait","title":"Sebastiano Salgado Kuwait","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__title\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSebastião Salgado in a Desert Aflame\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description--subtitle\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe first major publication of Salgado’s Kuwaiti oil wells series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description--content\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e“We must remember that in the brutality of battle another such apocalypse is always just around the corner.” —\u003ca class=\"keyword-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/sebastiao-salgado\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSebastião Salgado\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eIn January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of \u003cstrong\u003eKuwait,\u003c\/strong\u003e Saddam Hussein’s troops retaliated with an inferno. At some \u003cstrong\u003e700 oil wells\u003c\/strong\u003e and an unspecified number of oil-filled low-lying areas they ignited \u003cstrong\u003evast, raging fires\u003c\/strong\u003e, creating \u003cstrong\u003eone of the worst environmental disasters in living memory\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eAs the desperate efforts to contain and extinguish the conflagration progressed, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca class=\"keyword-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/sebastiao-salgado\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSebastião Salgado\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003etraveled to Kuwait to witness the crisis firsthand. The conditions were excruciating. The\u003cstrong\u003e heat was so vicious that Salgado’s smallest lens warped.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003eterrifying scale of this “huge theater the size of the planet”\u003c\/strong\u003e: 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSalgado’s epic pictures first appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e in June 1991 and were subsequently awarded the \u003cstrong\u003eOskar Barnack Award\u003c\/strong\u003e, recognizing outstanding images on the relationship between man and the environment. \u003cem\u003eKuwait: A Desert on Fire\u003c\/em\u003e is the\u003cstrong\u003e first monograph of this astonishing series\u003c\/strong\u003e. Like \u003cem\u003eGenesis\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eExodus\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e The Children\u003c\/em\u003e, it is as much a major document of modern history as an extraordinary body of photographic work.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--biographies\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"read-more__biography--title\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\" data-uw-rm-heading=\"level\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe photographer and author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca class=\"keyword-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/sebastiao-salgado\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSebastião Salgado\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(1944–2025) 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 Lélia Wanick Salgado created Amazonas Images which exclusively handles his work. Salgado’s photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including \u003cem\u003eSahel. L’Homme en détresse \u003c\/em\u003e(1986), \u003cem\u003eOther Americas\u003c\/em\u003e (1986),\u003cem\u003e Terra\u003c\/em\u003e (1997),\u003cem\u003e Migrations \u003c\/em\u003e(2000),\u003cem\u003e The Children \u003c\/em\u003e(2000), \u003cem\u003eAfrica \u003c\/em\u003e(2007), \u003cem\u003eGenesis \u003c\/em\u003e(2013), \u003cem\u003eThe Scent of a Dream\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eKuwait. A Desert on Fire\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), \u003cem\u003eGold\u003c\/em\u003e (2019) and \u003cem\u003eAmazônia\u003c\/em\u003e (2021).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"read-more__biography--title\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"3\" data-uw-rm-heading=\"level\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe editor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--item\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLélia Wanick Salgado\u003c\/strong\u003e studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s, she began to conceive and design the majority of \u003ca class=\"keyword-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/collection\/sebastiao-salgado\/\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSebastião Salgado\u003c\/a\u003e’s photography books and all of the exhibitions of his work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--book-info\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"read-more__biography--book-title\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"4\" data-uw-rm-heading=\"level\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSebastião Salgado. Kuwait. A Desert on Fire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"product-detail-information__book-details\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-testid=\"book-details--dimensions\"\u003e31.8\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ex\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e29\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecm, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-testid=\"book-details--weight\"\u003e2.25 kg, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e208 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--book-edition\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"read-more__biography--book-isbn\"\u003eISBN\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e978-3-8365-6125-9\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"edition-selection__single-edition\"\u003eEdition: Multilingual (English, French, German)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"TASCHEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52199586398576,"sku":null,"price":1450000.0,"currency_code":"IDR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/2679\/1280\/files\/Frame49_1ede429f-01da-467a-856a-19ae4cd82a7a.png?v=1779438832","url":"https:\/\/coverbook.store\/products\/sebastiano-salgado-kuwait","provider":"Cover Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}