出版社: Taschen GmbH; Mul (2016年10月19日)
精装: 205页
语种: 英语
ISBN: 3836561255
条形码: 9783836561259
商品尺寸: 32.3 x 2.5 x 29.5 cm
商品重量: 2 Kg
Desert aflame Sebastiao 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. 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, and with characteristic sensitivity to both human and envrionmental impact, Salgado captured the terrifying scale of this huge theater the size of the planet 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. Salgado s epic pictures first appeared in the New York Times Magazine in June 1991 and were subsequently widely published and awarded the Oskar Barnack Award, recognizing outstanding images on the relationship between man and the environment. Kuwait: A Desert on Fire is the first monograph of this astonishing series. Like Genesis, Exodus, and The Children, it is as much a major document of modern history as an extraordinary body of photographic work.
Sebastiao Salgado 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 Lelia created nas Images, which exclusively handles his work. Salgado s photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Other Americas (1986), Sahel, L'Homme en detresse (1986), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000), Africa (2007), and Genesis (2013).
Lelia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s she began conceiving and designing the majority of Sebastiao Salgado s photography books and all the exhibitions of his work, including Genesis. Lelia Wanick Salgado has been the director of nas Images since 1994.
这本摄影集带给我的震撼是难以言喻的。翻开每一页,仿佛能感受到那片土地上弥漫的烟尘与绝望,空气仿佛凝固在了战争爆发的那一刻。萨尔加多用他标志性的黑白影调,捕捉了极端环境下的生命力与脆弱。那些被火焰吞噬的油田,那些在废墟中徘徊的身影,每一个定格都饱含着无声的控诉。我特别留意到他对光线的运用,那种强烈的对比度,使得画面不仅是记录,更上升到了艺术的层面,将人性的挣扎与宏大的灾难并置,引发了观看者对战争本质的深刻反思。这不是简单的风景照,而是对人类历史伤痕的审视。书中的排版和纸张质感也十分考究,厚重的印刷使得那些细节得以完美呈现,每一个颗粒感都仿佛在诉说着尘封的故事,让人不得不放慢速度,去细细品味那种凝重的历史感。
评分与其他纪实摄影作品相比,这组聚焦于科威特的作品展现出一种独特的、近乎史诗般的冷静。萨尔加多似乎退居幕后,让事件本身发出最原始的声响。我特别留意到他对人物肖像的处理——即便是少数出现的平民或士兵,他们也常常被置于巨大的、压倒性的环境背景之中,这强化了个人在宏大历史进程中的渺小与无助。这种构图策略非常高明,它避免了过度煽情,转而追求一种更为普世的悲剧感。我可以想象,在当时的现场进行拍摄需要极大的勇气和极强的专业素养,如何在爆炸和危险中保持绝对的客观和稳定的审美判断,这本身就是一种令人钦佩的职业精神的体现。
评分初拿到这本书时,我首先被它的体量和装帧吸引了。它沉甸甸的,有一种仪式感。但真正吸引我持续翻阅下去的,是其中对于环境变迁的捕捉。萨尔加多在这片饱受战火蹂躏的土地上,拍出了土地本身的痛苦。那些被石油污染的沙丘,那些在毒烟中扭曲的天空,展现了一种超越了政治和军事冲突的、更根本的生态灾难。这种对自然的敬畏与怜悯,从他的镜头中流淌出来,使得整部作品的立意拔高了一层。它不再仅仅是关于某场特定战争的记录,而成为了关于人类如何对待地球家园的警示录。每一次翻页,都像是在见证一个正在缓慢死去的生态系统,那种慢性的、无法逆转的凋零感,比瞬间的爆炸更让人心悸。
评分阅读体验上,这套书的编排方式非常具有引导性,它不像一般的图册那样只是简单罗列照片,而是似乎构建了一条叙事线索,引导我们从宏观的破坏场景,逐步深入到对个体命运的关注。尽管语言的文字描述很少,但图像本身的力量是压倒性的。我个人最欣赏的是它对于“遗迹”的描绘,那些被遗弃的设备、被烧焦的植被,都在无声地宣告着人类行为的鲁莽与不可挽回。这种视觉语言的纯粹性,反而要求读者投入更多的想象和情感去填补空白,这是一种非常主动的阅读过程,让人无法轻易地将注意力转移开。它迫使你面对那些被主流媒体往往一带而过的情景,展现了冲突背后更深层次的荒凉与创伤。
评分深入品味后,我发现这本书的叙事节奏是极其缓慢且深沉的。它不是那种追求瞬间冲击力的快餐式影像集。相反,它要求时间,要求你与画面建立起长久、甚至有些痛苦的联结。其中一些长焦镜头捕捉到的远景,将战场的广袤与人类活动的微不足道形成了鲜明对比,那种辽阔感中蕴含的疏离感,令人久久不能平静。此外,装帧设计中对于留白的运用,也起到了极佳的“呼吸空间”作用,让那些密集的、充满细节的灾难场景得以被消化和整理。总而言之,这是一部需要被珍藏、且需要反复、沉静地去“阅读”的视觉文献,它留下的思想回响远超那些直观的视觉冲击力。
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