About the photographer, Sebastião SALGADO (*1944 in Aimorés, BRA)

Sebastião Ribeiro SALGADO Jr. is a photographer, photo reporter and environmental activist. He is one of the socially committed photographers in the tradition of social documentary photography. In 1979, he joined the prestigious Magnum Photos agency and was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2019, making him only the second visual artist to receive this prestigious award.

Photo books by Sebastião SALGADO

'Genesis' (2013, 2019, 2020); 'Gold' (2019); 'Africa' (2007, 2019); 'Exodus' (2016); 'Kuwait, A Desert on Fire' (2016); 'Anderes Amerika' (2015); 'Scent of a Dream' (2015); 'Workers' (2012); 'Migranten' (2000), 'Kinder der Migration' (2000), 'Terra' (1997), 'Arbeiter' (1993),  'Sahel, L’Homme en détresse' (1986)


After the discovery in 1979, the Serra Pelada awakened a longing for the legendary gold country 'El Dorado'. This book contains the complete portfolio in large format reproductions and museum quality, a foreword by Sebastião SALGADO and an essay by Riding
Specification
  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Alan Riding
  • Format: Hardcover with dust jacket, 25 x 33 cm, 208 pp., b/w ills., multilingual text: Germen / English / French
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Magnum photographer Sebastião SALGADO traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years and photographed the incomparable beauty of this unique region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains as well as the people living there - irreplaceable for mankind.
DVD-Dokumentary film, PAL / Regionalcode: 2, 16:9, 106 min., German with French and Portuguese pasages (with german subtitles)
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  • Ed(s)/Author(s): Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
  • Format: DVD-Dokumentarfilm, PAL / Regionalcode: 2, 16:9, 106 min., German with French and Portuguese pasages (with german subtitles)
19,95 € * More information
German edition. Sebastião SALGADO has created a world of images that show nature, animals and indigenous peoples in intense beauty. The volume 'Genesis' is the result of an epic 8-year expedition to regions where the planet has remained untouched before.
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  • Book design: Lélia Wanick SALGADO
  • Format: Zweite Auflage. Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 520 S. (davon 17 ausklappbar), 24,5 x 35,5 x 4 cm., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
85,00 € * Weight 3.9 kg
German Ed.! 3. Auflage, in Leinen gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 33 x 3,5 cm., 399 S. + 23 S. Beilage, S/W Aufn., 2.100 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
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  • Book design: Lélia Wanick SALGADO
  • Format: German Ed.! 3. Auflage, in Leinen gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 33 x 3,5 cm., 399 S. + 23 S. Beilage, S/W Aufn., 2.100 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
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The out-of-print 'Zeitblende' was published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous photo agency Magnum. The picture & text book provides an overview of the impressive field of reportage photography that is commensurate with its significance
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This photo volume by Sebastião SALGADO documents traditional methods of sustainable coffee farming across the globe, revealing rituals deeply steeped in history & pride. 'Scent of a Dream' spans nearly a decade of research into the hidden world of coffee.
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  • Format: HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 36 x 4,5 cm., 320 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
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HC with dust jacket, 32 x 29 cm., 208 pp., b/w ills., multi-lingual texts: English / German / French
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  • Book design: Lélia Wanick SALGADO
  • Format: HC with dust jacket, 32 x 29 cm., 208 pp., b/w ills., multi-lingual texts: English / German / French
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English version. Sebastião SALGADO has created a world of images that show nature, animals and indigenous peoples in intense beauty. The volume 'Genesis' is the result of an epic 8-year expedition to regions where the planet has remained untouched before.
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  • Book design: Lelia Wanick Salgado
  • Format: English Ed., HC with dust jacket, 24,5 x 35,5 x 4 cm., 520 pp. with 17 fold-outs, text language: English
60,00 € * More information
Brazilean photographer Sebastião SALGADO returned for 'Africa' to document the pride and beauty of this continent as part of the 'Genesis' project - series of landscapes, fauna, flora and human communities as an investigation into a still pristine nature.
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