| Dates: | 1944, 8 February - | | Born: | Brazil, Minas Gerais, Aimorés | | Active: | Global | | Gender: | Male |
Brazilian photojournalist who has worked for several of the leading photo agencies (Sygma, Gamma, Magnum) at different times. His long term studies of workers, migrations, famine all detail the plight of the human condition.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Educated as an economist, Salgado became a photojournalist in 1973, working for the Sygma, Gamma, Magnum Photos, and eventually founding his own agency, Amazonas Images in 1994. His long-term documentary projects, rendered with haunting chiaroscuro, capture the dignity and endurance of humanity against oppression, war, and famine. With a detailed panoramic grandeur, his essays on the inferno of Brazilian gold-ore mines, the end of large-scale manual labor, and the plight of refugees and migrants across 21 countries, chronicle this century’s brutalities. "The planet remains divided," Salgado explains. "The first world in a crisis of excess, the third world in a crisis of need."
(Author: Garie Waltzer - Photographer and consultant)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Nair, Parvati, 2011, A Different Light: The Photography of Sebastião Salgado, (Duke University Press) isbn-13: 9780822350316 [Δ]
Salgado, Sebastião, 1986, Other Americas, (New York: Pantheon Books) [Δ]
Salgado, Sebastião, 1990, An Uncertain Grace, (New York: Aperture) [Δ]
Salgado, Sebastião, 1993, Workers: An Archeology of the Industrial Age, (New York: Aperture) [Δ]
Salgado, Sebastião, 1997, Terra: Struggle of the Landless, (New York: Aperture) [Δ]
Salgado, Sebastião, 2000, Migrations, (New York: Aperture) [Δ]
Salgado, Sebastião, 2000, The Children: Refugees and Migrants, (New York: Aperture) [Δ]
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