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Permanent Error (Hardback)
$37.89 - Save $9.81 20% off - RRP $47.70 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Permanent ErrorThe most recent publication from the award-winning photographer Pieter Hugo reveals the devastating consequences of toxic waste on one community in Africa.
Full description- Publisher: PRESTEL
- Published: 30 April 2011
- Format: Hardback 128 pages
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- Categories: Individual Photographers | Photographs: Collections | Photographic Reportage | Pollution & Threats To The Environment
- ISBN 13: 9783791345208 ISBN 10: 3791345206
- Sales rank: 77,007
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Full description for Permanent Error
In his previous well-received volumes of photographs, Hugo offers unflinching yet striking portraits of humans, animals, societies, and landscapes that shock and disturb, but also demand our attention. In Permanent Error, he documents a garbage dump in Ghana that has become the repository for discarded computers from around the world. These haunting images document the true cost of a misguided policy-the shipping of millions of tons of obsolete computers to developing countries. The computers are burned to extract valuable metals, effectively turning the site into a toxic wasteland that contaminates air, soil, and groundwater for miles around. These amazing portraits tell a story of a marginal community overwhelmed by poverty, but where human strength and resilience shine through the inhuman conditions Hugo lays bare.
