Sebastião Salgado: Gold

by Sebastião Salgado (Photographer)

For a decade, 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 gold rush is merely the stuff of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained regrets—and Sebastião Salgado’s photographs. This signed edition gathers the complete black-and-white portfolio in impeccable, grand-scale, museum-quality reproductions. Collector’s Edition (No. 101–1,100), each numbered and signed by Sebastião Salgado.

Genres: Photography

Hardcover

Published July 1, 2019

About the author

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
He traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.
Salgado was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982, Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992; and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016.

Reviews

[Erik]

Photo journalism about gold fever and illusions of the bottom tier to get rich quick. Captures the daily drama of lives

[Tibor Jánosi-Mózes]

This is one of the most elementary cord documents I have ever seen. The devastation of nature, the misery and suffering cannot be described, it can only be captured in such an authentic way.