About the book: Sebastião Salgado traveled through the Brazilian Amazon for six years, photographing the incomparable beauty of this unique region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there – an irreplaceable treasure of humanity, where the immense power of nature can be felt like nowhere else on Earth.
Also available in four Art Editions of 100 copies each and in a Collector's Edition of 2,000 copies (No. 401–2,400).
Biography: Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) began his career as a photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked for the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos. In 1994, together with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, he founded the agency Amazonas Images, which exclusively represents his work. Salgado's photographic projects have been shown in numerous exhibitions and books, including Sahel. L’Homme en détresse (1986), Other Americas (1986), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), Children of Migration (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), The Scent of Dreams (2015), Kuwait. A Desert in Flames (2016), Gold (2019), and Amazônia (2021).
Lélia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. She discovered her interest in photography in 1970. Since the 1980s, she has conceived and designed the majority of Sebastião Salgado's photo books and organized all exhibitions of his work.
Pages: 528
PHOTOGRAPHER AND AUTHOR
EDITOR: Sebastião Salgado
Lélia Wanick Salgado
First published: 09/04/2021
Book language: German
Edition: D
ISBN: 978-3-8365-8511-8
Topics: Photography
Dimensions: 35.8 cm x 26.0 cm, Weight 4.28 kg
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