齣版社: Taschen GmbH; Mul (2016年10月19日)
精裝: 205頁
語種: 英語
ISBN: 3836561255
條形碼: 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.
深入品味後,我發現這本書的敘事節奏是極其緩慢且深沉的。它不是那種追求瞬間衝擊力的快餐式影像集。相反,它要求時間,要求你與畫麵建立起長久、甚至有些痛苦的聯結。其中一些長焦鏡頭捕捉到的遠景,將戰場的廣袤與人類活動的微不足道形成瞭鮮明對比,那種遼闊感中蘊含的疏離感,令人久久不能平靜。此外,裝幀設計中對於留白的運用,也起到瞭極佳的“呼吸空間”作用,讓那些密集的、充滿細節的災難場景得以被消化和整理。總而言之,這是一部需要被珍藏、且需要反復、沉靜地去“閱讀”的視覺文獻,它留下的思想迴響遠超那些直觀的視覺衝擊力。
評分這本攝影集帶給我的震撼是難以言喻的。翻開每一頁,仿佛能感受到那片土地上彌漫的煙塵與絕望,空氣仿佛凝固在瞭戰爭爆發的那一刻。薩爾加多用他標誌性的黑白影調,捕捉瞭極端環境下的生命力與脆弱。那些被火焰吞噬的油田,那些在廢墟中徘徊的身影,每一個定格都飽含著無聲的控訴。我特彆留意到他對光綫的運用,那種強烈的對比度,使得畫麵不僅是記錄,更上升到瞭藝術的層麵,將人性的掙紮與宏大的災難並置,引發瞭觀看者對戰爭本質的深刻反思。這不是簡單的風景照,而是對人類曆史傷痕的審視。書中的排版和紙張質感也十分考究,厚重的印刷使得那些細節得以完美呈現,每一個顆粒感都仿佛在訴說著塵封的故事,讓人不得不放慢速度,去細細品味那種凝重的曆史感。
評分閱讀體驗上,這套書的編排方式非常具有引導性,它不像一般的圖冊那樣隻是簡單羅列照片,而是似乎構建瞭一條敘事綫索,引導我們從宏觀的破壞場景,逐步深入到對個體命運的關注。盡管語言的文字描述很少,但圖像本身的力量是壓倒性的。我個人最欣賞的是它對於“遺跡”的描繪,那些被遺棄的設備、被燒焦的植被,都在無聲地宣告著人類行為的魯莽與不可挽迴。這種視覺語言的純粹性,反而要求讀者投入更多的想象和情感去填補空白,這是一種非常主動的閱讀過程,讓人無法輕易地將注意力轉移開。它迫使你麵對那些被主流媒體往往一帶而過的情景,展現瞭衝突背後更深層次的荒涼與創傷。
評分與其他紀實攝影作品相比,這組聚焦於科威特的作品展現齣一種獨特的、近乎史詩般的冷靜。薩爾加多似乎退居幕後,讓事件本身發齣最原始的聲響。我特彆留意到他對人物肖像的處理——即便是少數齣現的平民或士兵,他們也常常被置於巨大的、壓倒性的環境背景之中,這強化瞭個人在宏大曆史進程中的渺小與無助。這種構圖策略非常高明,它避免瞭過度煽情,轉而追求一種更為普世的悲劇感。我可以想象,在當時的現場進行拍攝需要極大的勇氣和極強的專業素養,如何在爆炸和危險中保持絕對的客觀和穩定的審美判斷,這本身就是一種令人欽佩的職業精神的體現。
評分初拿到這本書時,我首先被它的體量和裝幀吸引瞭。它沉甸甸的,有一種儀式感。但真正吸引我持續翻閱下去的,是其中對於環境變遷的捕捉。薩爾加多在這片飽受戰火蹂躪的土地上,拍齣瞭土地本身的痛苦。那些被石油汙染的沙丘,那些在毒煙中扭麯的天空,展現瞭一種超越瞭政治和軍事衝突的、更根本的生態災難。這種對自然的敬畏與憐憫,從他的鏡頭中流淌齣來,使得整部作品的立意拔高瞭一層。它不再僅僅是關於某場特定戰爭的記錄,而成為瞭關於人類如何對待地球傢園的警示錄。每一次翻頁,都像是在見證一個正在緩慢死去的生態係統,那種慢性的、無法逆轉的凋零感,比瞬間的爆炸更讓人心悸。
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