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An Alskog-Sensorium Book- FIRST EDITION- SOFTCOVER, GOOD-; light wear, a few ex-library markings. 192 pp. ILLUSTRATED with PHOTOGRAPHS. The Environmental, PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS focused on what W. Eugene Smith calls 'the widening damnations of POLLUTION.' 'The STORY of the POISONING of a CITY, and of the PEOPLE who choose to carry the BURDEN of COURAGE. Minimata, a fishing and farming town on the southern JAPANESE island of Kyushu. Its people joined the INDUSTRIAL AGE when the CHISSO CORPORATION built a CHEMICAL FACTORY there. The DISASTER that befell them, and the ways in which some have managed to RESPOND, reach far beyond JAPAN. Their COURAGE is a flag of HOPE for all LIFE- but it will have signaled no VICTORY unless it AWAKENS other people to ACTION in every corner of this PLANET.' Details the MERCURY POISONING from INDUSTRIAL WASTE in Minimata, JAPAN in the 1950's, the intersection of INDUSTRY and GOVERNMENT. PHOTO ESSAYS, PHOTOJOURNALISM by one of the world's best PHOTOGRAPHERS and PHOTOJOURNALISTS, W. Eugene Smith, and his wife, Aileen Smith, PHOTOGRAPHER and PHOTOJOURNALIST. Photo essay of one of the world's most HISTORIC ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION events. ENVIRONMENT, ACTIVISM, INDUSTRY, PUBLIC HEALTH. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1679429288995

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