L'autore:
Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado has received photojournalism's top awards for his documentary work on peasant life in Latin America, famine in the Sahel region of Africa, the end of large-scale manual labor, forced migration at the end of the twentieth century, and most recently, the global campaign to eradicate polio. Trained as an economist, he began working as a photographer in 1973. Autres Amériques (Other Americas) was awarded the Kodak/City of Paris award; Sahel: L'Homme en Détresse won best photography book of the year from the international photography festival in Arles, France; and An Uncertain Grace, an Aperture book, was published in 1990 to enormous acclaim. Among many other citations, he has received the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and was named Photographer of the Year on two occasions by the International Center of Photography, New York. In 1994, Salgado left the prestigious Magnum Photo Agency to found Amazonas Images. He lives in Paris with his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado, and their two children.
Product Description:
More than those of any other living photographer, Sebastiao Salgado's images of the world's poor stand in tribute to the human condition. His transforming photographs bestow dignity on the most isolated and neglected, from famine-stricken refugees in the Sahel to the indigenous peoples of South America. "Workers" is a global epic that transcends mere imagery to become an affirmation of the enduring spirit of working women and men. The book is an archaeological exploration of the activities that have defined labor from the Stone Age through the Industrial Age, to the present. Divided into six categories--"Agriculture," "Food," "Mining," "Industry," "Oil" and "Construction"--the book unearths layers of visual information to reveal the ceaseless human activity at the core of modern civilization. Extended captions provide a historical and factual framework for the images. "Salgado unveils the pain, the beauty, and the brutality of the world of work on which everything rests," wrote Arthur Miller of this photobook classic, upon its original publication in 1993. "This is a collection of deep devotion and impressive skill." An elegy for the passing of traditional methods of labor and production, "Workers" delivers a message of endurance and hope.
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