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Afghanistan | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Steele-perkins
Publisher: Mariner Books
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 917559
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 9.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 190339113X
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9781903391136
ASIN: 190339113X
Publication Date: March 1, 2001
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Product Description
"Afghanistan" is introduced by the French essayist and traveller André Velter and includes essays and verses by the Afghani poet Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, who was assassinated in Pakistan in 1988. 76 duotone photographs.
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The Spectre Of An Ancient Time December 12, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In this exceptional volume Chris Steele-Perkins has distilled four separate travel adventures into an enormously effective photo-essay depicting Afghanistan at a time when the now ignominious Taliban were just taking hold of and consolidating their political power (c.1995). Although the book has as its focus unending war and the horrendous impact interminable armed conflict has had on the people of Afghanistan, what is remarkable in Steele-Perkin's work is how the daily pulse of ordinary life lived within a landscape of devastation and ruin manages consistently to emerge through the gloom. Because these wonderfully evocative images are indeed full of life! And full of the great beauty and mystery of the Afghan people. Two written essays (one by the photographer is a splendid travelogue) complement perfectly this accomplished portfolio of haunting images.
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