{"product_id":"kuwait-a-desert-on-fire-sebastiao-salgado","title":"Kuwait: A Desert on Fire — Sebastião Salgado","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"117\" data-end=\"613\"\u003eShot in the aftermath of the Gulf War, \u003cem data-start=\"156\" data-end=\"182\"\u003eKuwait: A Desert on Fire\u003c\/em\u003e is Sebastião Salgado’s searing chronicle of ecological and human catastrophe — a series of images that feel almost mythological in their scale and horror. Published by Taschen, this volume collects Salgado’s documentation of the oil fires ignited by retreating Iraqi forces in 1991: hellish black skies, molten earth, workers dwarfed by towers of flame, and the eerie, chemical sublime of a scorched desert rendered uninhabitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"615\" data-end=\"1151\"\u003eThese photographs are not only reportage — they are theatrical, sculptural, and infernal. As always, Salgado’s lens humanises the inhuman, giving shape to the anonymous firefighters, engineers and laborers who entered this toxic inferno to bring the blazes under control. Every frame is thick with oil, ash and allegory — environmental disaster seen not as abstraction, but as theatre of war. In dialogue with \u003cem data-start=\"1025\" data-end=\"1034\"\u003eWorkers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1039\" data-end=\"1048\"\u003eGenesis\u003c\/em\u003e, this book forms part of Salgado’s long, obsessive inquiry into the price of modernity and extraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1469\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003cbr data-start=\"1168\" data-end=\"1171\"\u003eTitle: Kuwait: A Desert on Fire\u003cbr data-start=\"1202\" data-end=\"1205\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Sebastião Salgado\u003cbr data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1242\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1277\" data-end=\"1280\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with dust jacket\u003cbr data-start=\"1326\" data-end=\"1329\"\u003eDimensions (cm): Approx. 24.8 × 33\u003cbr data-start=\"1363\" data-end=\"1366\"\u003eLanguage: Multilingual (English, German, French)\u003cbr data-start=\"1414\" data-end=\"1417\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Taschen\u003cbr data-start=\"1444\" data-end=\"1447\"\u003eCondition: Very good\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1476\" data-end=\"1538\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52622567571794,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_copy_15302c52-763b-4100-93aa-f1674dd24734.jpg?v=1770108498","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/kuwait-a-desert-on-fire-sebastiao-salgado","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}