The Silence
1995
£120.00
First edition of The Silence by Gilles Peress. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition, there is a soft crease to the bottom corner of the cover and the first few pages. includes a separate booklet, loosely laid in.
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.
