Kuwait by the First Photographers

Documents the period between 1900 & 1950, which saw Kuwait's emergence from a vulnerable shaikhdom negotiating a precarious independence among neighboring powers to a nation state with the highest per capita income in the world. It is an outstanding visual record of a crucial time before the centuries-old way of life, centering on pearling, fishing, boat-building & trade by land & sea, was swept away. The Russian, British & German pictures of the early 1900s were followed by a mass of British material as Britain reasserted its hegemony in the Gulf. The pictures are organized by chronology & photographer. Pictures are captioned in detail. An introduction traces the development of photography in the area.Facey, William is the author of 'Kuwait by the First Photographers' with ISBN 9780756753177 and ISBN 0756753171.