Workers - Ltd Edition with Print

Salgado, Sebastiao

Code: 2555

Publisher: Aperture

New Hardcover First Edition, Signed by the photographer

Price: £820

Out of stock

This gelatin-silver print is signed by Sebastião Salgado and is accompanied by a signed and slipcased copy of Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age , this world-renowned artist's testament of manual labor in the contemporary world. Fast-action photography is no great trick anymore. The real trick is to pin down the slow motions that make the great arcs of history. This is what photographer Sebastião Salgado has done... TIME Magazine Sebastiao 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 the global campaign to eradicate polio. Trained as an economist, he began working as a photographer in 1973. In 1994, Salgado left the prestigious agency Magnum Photos to found Amazonas Images. In 1990 Aperture published An Uncertain Grace to enormous acclaim, followed by the global epic document of manual laborers Workers in 1993, and in 2000 Migrations, a collection of images of mass migration over seven years and across more than thirty-five countries. A world-renowned exemplar of the tradition of concerned photography, Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States including the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. He was named Photographer of the Year on two occasions by the International Center of Photography, New York. He lives in Paris with his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado, and their two children.