Kuwait by the First Photographers

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Year: 1998
Pages: 128
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 1860642713

Product Code: 756753171

Description

William Facey (au); Gillian Grant (au). Documents the period between 1900 & 1950, which saw Kuwait’s emergence from a vulnerable shaikhdom negotiating a precarious independence among neighboring powers to a nation state with the highest per capita income in the world. It is an outstanding visual record of a crucial time before the centuries-old way of life, centering on pearling, fishing, boat-building & trade by land & sea, was swept away. The Russian, British & German pictures of the early 1900s were followed by a mass of British material as Britain reasserted its hegemony in the Gulf. The pictures are organized by chronology & photographer. Pictures are captioned in detail. An introduction traces the development of photography in the area.

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