Afghanistan: The Land That Was; Author: Photographer Michaud, Roland; Author: Photographer Michaud, Sabrina; Performer: Michaud, Roland;Michaud, Sabrina; Hardback; Book

Author: Photographer Michaud, Roland; Author: Photographer Michaud, Sabrina; Performer: Michaud, Roland;Michaud, Sabrina
Hardback; Book; 150 Colour Photographs
253 pages
Published: September 2002
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
ISBN: 0810934906

Once upon a time, before the Soviet invasion and two decades of civil war, Afghanistan stood as a beautiful, if austere, country. Enchanted by the dramatic landscape, two photographers fromthe West devoted 14 years, from 1964 to 1978, to documenting its rugged charms. From ruined cities covered with desert sands to the Pamir mountains, where caravans of camels walk across frozen riversin winter, to the Turkestan bazaars along the old Silk Road, Roland and Sabrina Michaud traveled and came to love this ravaged paradise and its proud peoples: Pashtuns, Tadjiks, Hazara farmers, Uzbekhorsemen, Kirgiz shepherds, Nuristani mountain dwellers, and Derbiche vagrants.With the Michauds' evocative photography and text by prizewinning poet and essayist Andre Velter, this striking testimThe Land That Was. A striking photographic testimony to the Afghanistan that once was. Enchanted by the dramatic landscape of Afghanistan, two photographers from the West devoted 14 years, from 1964 to 1978, to documenting its rugged charms. Roland and Sabrina Michaud travelled and came to love this ravaged paradise and its proud peoples.