Kuwait : a desert on fire = eine wuste in flammen = un derert en feu /
Salgado, Sebastião, 1944-
Kuwait : a desert on fire = eine wuste in flammen = un derert en feu / Sebastião Salgado : Kuwait Wüste in flammen Désert en feu Sebastião Salgado ; concept and design/konzeption und gestaltung/concept et réalization Lélia Wanick Salgado. - 205 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 x 33 cm
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.
Text in English, German, and French.
9783836561259 3836561255
Salgado, Sebastião, 1944-
War photography--Kuwait.
Oil wells--Fires and fire prevention--Kuwait--Pictorial works.
Kuwait : a desert on fire = eine wuste in flammen = un derert en feu / Sebastião Salgado : Kuwait Wüste in flammen Désert en feu Sebastião Salgado ; concept and design/konzeption und gestaltung/concept et réalization Lélia Wanick Salgado. - 205 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 x 33 cm
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.
Text in English, German, and French.
9783836561259 3836561255
Salgado, Sebastião, 1944-
War photography--Kuwait.
Oil wells--Fires and fire prevention--Kuwait--Pictorial works.