The Silence
Gilles Peress
BOO 2637 U
€200,00
| CONDITION & NOTES | |
| Good / Exterior is slightly discoloured, has some general shelf wear and some wear along the edges. Boldly signed in silver marker by Peress on the inside of cover. This copy was given by Peress himself to the previous owner and includes a white text booklet, instead of the usual light-blue booklet. An uncommon copy. |
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| TYPE | PUBLICATION YEAR |
| Softcover |
1995 |
| EDITION | LANGUAGE |
| First |
English |
| PUBLISHER | DIMENSIONS |
| Scalo | 22.5 x 17 cm |
CONDITION
Good / Exterior is slightly discoloured, has some general shelf wear and some wear along the edges. Boldly signed in silver marker by Peress on the inside of cover. This copy was given by Peress himself to the previous owner and includes a white text booklet, instead of the usual light-blue booklet. An uncommon copy.
TYPE
Softcover
PUBLICATION YEAR
1995
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
English
PUBLISHER
Scalo
DIMENSIONS
22.5 x 17 cm
Good / Exterior is slightly discoloured, has some general shelf wear and some wear along the edges. Boldly signed in silver marker by Peress on the inside of cover. This copy was given by Peress himself to the previous owner and includes a white text booklet, instead of the usual light-blue booklet. An uncommon copy.
TYPE
Softcover
PUBLICATION YEAR
1995
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
English
PUBLISHER
Scalo
DIMENSIONS
22.5 x 17 cm
ABOUT
Gilles Peress, renowned for his acclaimed Farewell to Bosnia, continues his project Hate Thy Brother in this book, The Silence, which concerns itself with the class war in Rwanda. As one of the most brutal and inhumane occurrences of the twentieth century, the atrocities that occurred in Rwanda in 1994 went virtually unnoticed by the Western world. Peress challenged previous photo-documentation with this book, and spares nothing. It is one of the most harrowing collections of photographs ever published, and is impossible to experience it with the detachment of a historian.
Peress says of the situation in Rwanda, “The immensity of this crime is beyond our imagination and is only surpassed by the unbelievable indifference of the West and the developed nations who would have been able to intervene and prevent the crime…The question raised here is if man is fundamentally good or bad, if there is a possible redemption, if there can be compassion and solidarity.” As part of Peress’ design for the book, the edges are dyed in black ink, making this an even more powerful object of death.