Signed_Gold - Sebastiao Salgado (Taschen 2019)

Salgado, Sebastio; Riding, Alan

ISBN 10: 3836575094 / ISBN 13: 9783836575096

Verlag: TASCHEN, 2019

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783836575096

Inhaltsangabe:

“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?” – Sebastião Salgado

When Sebastião 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 Sebastião 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 Brassaï 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.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Alan Riding es un escritor británico nacido en Brasil. Durante muchos años fue corresponsal de The New York Times en el extranjero. Después de dirigir las delegaciones del periódico en México, Brasil y Francia, y de ejercer como corresponsal de arte europeo, ahora escribe teatro. Residente en París, como Sebastião Salgado, ambos son amigos y colaboradores desde principios de la década de 1980.

Lélia Wanick Salgado estudió Arquitectura y Urbanismo en París. En 1970, empezó a interesarse por la fotografía y, en la década de 1980, pasó a concebir y diseñar la mayoría de los libros de fotografías de Sebastião Salgado y todas las exposiciones de su obra.

En 1973, Sebastião Salgado empezó su carrera de fotógrafo profesional en París y trabajó para las agencias fotográficas Sygma, Gamma y Magnum Photos. En 1994, junto con su esposa, Lélia Wanick Salgado, creó la agencia Amazonas images, que hoy es su estudio y gestiona su obra en exclusiva. Los proyectos fotográficos de Salgado han aparecido en muchas exposiciones y libros, como Sahel. El fin del camino (1988), Otras Américas (1986), Terra (1997), Éxodos (2000), Retratos de los niños del éxodo (2000), Africa (2007), Génesis (2013), The Scent of a Dream (2015), Kuwait. Un desierto en llamas (2016) y Gold (2019).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Signed_Gold - Sebastiao Salgado (Taschen ...
Verlag: TASCHEN
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good