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Sebastião Salgado

Born

in Aimorés, Brazil

February 08, 1944

Website

http://www.amazonasimages.com/qui-sommes-nous

Genre

Arts & Photography

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Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was born on February 8th, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He lives in Paris. Having studied economics, Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in 1973 in Paris, working with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos until 1994, when he and Lélia Wanick Salgado formed Amazonas images, an agency created exclusively for his work.

Salgado has travelled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these, besides appearing in numerous press publications, have also been presented in books such as Other Americas (1986), Sahel: l’homme en détresse (1986), Sahel: el fin del camino (1988), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations and Portraits (2000), and Africa ( ...more

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Average rating: 4.58 · 3,168 ratings · 223 reviews · 97 distinct works • Similar authors

	Genesis by Sebastião Salgado (Photographs), Lélia Wanick Salgado (Editor) 4.76 avg rating — 923 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Da Minha Terra à Terra: Pela Primeira Vez, o Maior Fotojornalista do Mundo Conta sua História by Sebastião Salgado, Isabelle Francq, Julia da Rosa Simões (Translator) 4.31 avg rating — 703 ratings — published 2013 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Workers 4.72 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 1993 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sebastião Salgado: Migrations: Humanity in Transition 4.71 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Africa by Sebastião Salgado, Mia Couto, Lélia Wanick Salgado (Idea) 4.72 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terra: Struggle of the Landless 4.55 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sebastião Salgado: An Uncertain Grace by Sebastião Salgado, Fred Ritchin 4.49 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sahel: The End of the Road (Volume 3) (Series in Contemporary Photography) by Sebastião Salgado, Orville Schell, Fred Ritchin 4.52 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other Americas 4.45 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sebastião Salgado: Exodus by Sebastião Salgado (Photographer), Lélia Wanick Salgado (Editor) 4.74 avg rating — 57 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Sebastião Salgado (?)

“The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.”
― Sebastião Salgado

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“We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal”
― Sebastião Salgado

tags: activism, activism-inspiration, aesthetics, art, photographer, photography, sebastiao-salgado

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“Whenever possible, Salgado lives for a while with the people he photographs. “I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.”
― Sebastião Salgado

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