Book by Sebastião Salgado. Kuwait. Desert on fire - Taschen

Signed collector's edition of Kuwait: Desert in Flames, the first monograph of the extraordinary and multi-award-winning portfolio by Sebastião Salgado, featuring burnt oil rigs in Kuwait. In impeccable, large-format museum-scale reproduction, this volume is both an important historical document and a remarkable encounter with one of Salgado’s most epic series.

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