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Pascal Sebah
Description
Subject Matter:
Flat, open desert and a bright, cloudless sky provide the mis-en-scène for this enigmatic, if not ominous, photograph. Life and death are here contrasted, as the stripped skeleton of a camel sprawls across the lower foreground of the image, signaling the perils of desert travel. These remains provide a warning for the living travelers who pass by in the background. Two distinct groups of figures on camelback, a pair on the left and a group of four on the right, have come to a halt at the same instant for reasons which are left ambiguous in the image.
Physical Description:
The skeleton of a camel lies in the foreground of this photograph, while scattered groupings of figures on camelback dot the desert landscape in the background.
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