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Sebastiao Salgado. Gold by Alan Riding, Sebastiao Salgado (Hardcover, 2019)

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Sebastio Salgado. A resident of Paris like Sebastião Salgado, the two have been friends and collaborators since the early 1980s. Lélia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris.

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What is it about a dull yellow metal that drives men to abandon their homes, sell their belongings and cross a continent in order to risk life, limbs and sanity for a dream? - Sebastiao Salgado When Sebastiao Salgado was finally authorized to visit Serra Pelada in September 1986, having been blocked for six years by Brazil's military authorities, he was ill-prepared to take in the extraordinary spectacle that awaited him on this remote hilltop on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. Before him opened a vast hole, some 200 meters wide and deep, teeming with tens of thousands of barely-clothed men. Half of them carried sacks weighing up to 40 kilograms up wooden ladders, the others leaping down muddy slopes back into the cavernous maw. Their bodies and faces were the color of ochre, stained by the iron ore in the earth they had excavated. After gold was discovered in one of its streams in 1979, Serra Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world's largest open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling conditions. Today, Brazil's wildest gold rush is merely the stuff of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained regrets-and Sebastiao Salgado's photographs. Color dominated the glossy pages of magazines when Salgado shot these images. Black and white was a risky path, but the Serra Pelada portfolio would mark a return to the grace of monochrome photography, following a tradition whose masters, from Edward Weston and Brassai to Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, had defined the early and mid-20th century. When Salgado's images reached The New York Times Magazine, something extraordinary happened: there was complete silence. In my entire career at The New York Times, recalled photo editor Peter Howe, I never saw editors react to any set of pictures as they did to Serra Pelada. Today, with photography absorbed by the art world and digital manipulation, Salgado's portfolio holds a biblical quality and projects an immediacy that makes them vividly contemporary. The mine at Serra Pelada has been long closed, yet the intense drama of the gold rush leaps out of these images. This book gathers Salgado's complete Serra Pelada portfolio in museum-quality reproductions, accompanied by a foreword by the photographer and an essay by Alan Riding. Also available in a signed and limited Collector's Edition and as an Art Edition.

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Taschen Gmbh
ISBN-13
9783836575089
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8046713338

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Book Title
Sebastiao Salgado. Gold
Author
Alan Riding, Sebastiao Salgado
Format
Hardcover
Language
English, French, German
Publication Year
2019
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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330mm
Item Width
248mm
Item Weight
2261g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Alan Riding, Sebastiao Salgado
Editor
Lelia Wanick Salgado
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany

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by bobius21 Feb, 2024
Humbling quality
Should have bought it years ago, rare & exceptional repotarge on the human condition, Taschen do a great repo.
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A massive book full of extraordinary pictures
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