FAIT

Sophie Ristelhueber
FAIT

Photographs: Sophie Ristelhueber

Text: Carl Von Clausewitz

Publisher: Hazan

Year: 1992

Comments: Hardcover, 17,6 x 11 cm, Original edition (in French), b&w and colors photographs. In very condition (some slight marks on the cover). Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History", Vol 2 - p. 168

SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER (French, b. 1949) traveled to Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War to record the physical traces of the conflict. Entitled Fait or Fact, the resulting series of photographs—aerial and ground-level, in color and black-and-white—depicts trenches and tank tracks, bomb craters, dense smoke rising from blazing oil wells, battle detritus scattered in the sand. Ristelhueber hangs the large prints in an expansive grid that at first reads as a beautiful abstract field, then reveals itself to be a reconstitution of the battlefield on the gallery wall. (MOMA)