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Sebastião Salgado : Genesis

Salgado, Sebastião, 1944-2013

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Epic journeys to the ends of the earth: Salgado's opus on our planet in its natural state. On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebastiao Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder, he had an epiphany: suddenly life made sense. From that day onward - though it took years of hard work before he had the experience to earn his living as a photographer - the camera became his tool for interacting with the world. Salgado, who "always preferred the chiaroscuro palette of black-and-white images," shot very little color in his early career before giving it up completely. Having been raised on a rural farm in Brazil, far from civilization and without television, Salgado possessed a deep love and respect for nature; he was also particularly sensitive to the ways in which human beings are affected by their often devastating socio-economic conditions. Of the myriad works Salgado has produced in his esteemed career, three long-term projects stand out: "Workers" (1993), documenting the vanishing way of life of manual laborers across the world, "Migrations" (2000), a tribute to mass migration driven by hunger, natural disasters, environmental degradation and demographic pressure, and this new opus, "Genesis", the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society - the land and life of a still-pristine planet.

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Main title:

Sebastião Salgado : Genesis / texts Sebastião Salgado, Lélia Wanick Salgado, Irina Bokova ; editor Lélia Wanick Salgado.

Author:

Salgado, Sebastião, 1944-, photographer, writer of supplementary textual contentBokova, Irina, writer of supplementary textual contentSalgado, Lélia Wanick, editor, writer of supplementary textual content

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Sebastião Salgado : Genesis

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Collation:

517 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 36 cm + 1 booklet (34 pages)

Notes:

Accompanying booklet contains index to photographs.Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9783836538725 (hbk)9783836538725 (hardback)

Dewey class:

779.092779

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