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Title
Kuwait
Other Titles (e.g. Variant)
Desert on fire
Kuwait eine wüste in flammen
Kuwait un désert en feu
Wüste in flammen
Désert en feu
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Salgado, Sebastião, 1944- (Photographer Author)
Salgado, Lélia Wanick (Editor)
Heller, Julia (Translator) (Contributor)
Bosser, Jacques (Translator)
Subject
Salgado, Sebastião, 1944-
War photography--Kuwait (LCSH)
Oil wells--Fires and fire prevention--Kuwait--Pictorial works (LCSH)
Persian Gulf War, 1991--Destruction and pillage--Kuwait--Pictorial works (LCSH)
Fire fighters--Kuwait--Portraits (LCSH)
Salgado, Sebastião, 1944-
Persian Gulf War (1991)
Fire fighters
Destruction and pillage
Oil wells--Fires and fire prevention
War photography
Kuwait
1991 (FAST)
Genre Form
Portraits (FAST)
Illustrated works (FAST)
Pictorial works (FAST)
Illustrated works (LCGFT)
Illustrated works (LCGFT)
Language
English
English
German
French
Englishoriginal
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Geographic Coverage
Kuwait
Classification
LCC: TR820.6 .S252 2016
DDC: 779/.995670442092 full
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Content
text
still image
Note
Includes translation
Language: 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.
Authorized Access Point
Salgado, Sebastião, 1944- Kuwait
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: minimal
Identified By: bf:Local, 21316013
Change Date: 2019-12-05T13:35:54
Creation Date: 2019-11-30
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
Description Authentication:
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