Photo Essay · Mesopotamia by Night
Oil-Black
Photogravure
Over Desert Brown
A photographic record of the lower Euphrates: ziggurat ruins, marsh ferries, and the pipework of the southern fields, printed in the duotone register that has carried this journal since 1952.
In This Issue
96 pages
- 01 The Ferry at Qurna p. 12
- 02 Refinery, Daura p. 24
- 03 Ziggurat of Ur p. 38
- 04 Reed Houses, Hor p. 52
- 05 Pipeline North p. 66
- 06 Notes from Basra p. 84
Plate
IV
Ziggurat & Pylon, near Ur
Photographed at moonrise, March 1952. Duotone, photogravure plate.
زقّورة وأبراج النفط قرب أور — تصوير عند طلوع القمر، آذار ١٩٥٢.