Isabelle Francq

Sebastião Salgado

Dalla mia terra alla terra

Lélia Wanick Salgado

Genesis

Send a Salgado 25 postcards from the phenomenal Genesis collection For Sebastião Salgado, Genesis is a "love letter to the planet." TASCHEN's postcard set allows you to send on that wonder with 25 individual images from the complete Genesis portfolio, now the world's most-visited photography show of all time. The boxed set spans the breadth of Salgado's project across five focal territories: Planet South, Sanctuaries, Africa, Northern Spaces, and Amazonia and Pantanal. In exquisite black and white textures, each image celebrates the pristine splendor of nature, animals, and indigenous peoples that have, so far, escaped the imprint of modern society, from a Nomadic Nenet girl in Siberia to sunlit Buffalo herds in Botswana's Okavango Delta. "Genesis is a quest for the world as it was, as it was formed, as it evolved, as it existed for millennia before modern life accelerated and began distancing us from the very essence of our being"-Lélia Wanick Salgado

Postcard Set

Shahidul Alam

This inspiring personal journey offers unique, insider perspectives on Bangladesh and its many messages of struggle and triumph. Shahidul Alam is a photographer, writer, curator and activist. A former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the award winning Drik agency, the Bangladesh Photographic Institute, and Pathshala, the South Asian Institute of Photography; considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world. Over 30 years, Alam's leadership in Bangladesh has led the way in developing photography as a discipline, with an entirely new generation of acclaimed artists in the international arena. His style is personal, sometimes fast paced, often reflective, with magnificent imagery interwoven throughout the narrative. This book showcases Shahidul Alam's photographs, more than 100 colour and black and white plates illustrating the journey of an artistic, social, and political witness from inside Bangladesh. This ground-breaking work retraces his visual journey and personal vision spanning three decades, and provides the best interpretative and investigative angles into a culture and national reality, hitherto often misunderstood in the West. Using photography and journalism as its parameters, it is the first comprehensive vision of Bangladesh; these images are not 'about' the region from a European perspective; this is not an ethnographic account of an ex-colonial world. Instead, its on-the-ground insight aspires to explore its topography with decidedly indigenous eyes. Alam founded an artistic movement that cannot be silenced: the emergence of 'indigenous' photographers, achieving an intimacy with their subjects that truly understands their human condition.

My Journey as a Witness

Sebastiâo Salgado s'est incontestablement imposé, ces dernières années, comme un des plus grands photographes contemporains. Cet infatigable témoin porte un regard sur le monde dont le réalisme n'exclut pas la grandeur, pour lequel la détresse n'exclut pas la beauté. Sebastiâo Salgado a décidé d'anoblir l'homme et si, dans cette quête, il porte son objectif sur les plus démunis, c'est pour montrer qu'à travers des situations les plus extrêmes comme la famine ou les plus dures comme le travail forcené, l'homme reste grand. Depuis 1986, Sebastiâo Salgado s'est concentré sur le monde des travailleurs, construisant une véritable épopée dans laquelle hommes et femmes accomplissent, au prix d'énormes souffrances physiques, un effort surhumain. Pour La Main de l'homme, Sebastiâo Salgado s'est rendu au Brésil, dans des plantations de canne, où les hommes sont traités comme des esclaves sur des terres qui leur appartenaient autrefois. Il est allé à la Réunion, l'île du parfum où les Français aux pieds nus fournissent un énorme effort pour ramener une infime production d'essences pures. Il a vu aussi les moissonneuses de la mer cueillir des mollusques-plantes au fond de l'eau, des hommes, asphyxiés par la chaleur et l'humidité, ramasser les graines de cacao. Et devant l'objectif de Sebastiâo Salgado, les sidérurgies d'acier ressemblent à des cathédrales de fer et les travailleurs à des dieux immenses. En montrant combien la tâche de ces hommes et de ces femmes est difficile, le photographe leur redonne leur dignité. Ces 346 photos sont non seulement le témoignage d'une époque bientôt révolue, mais aussi la glorification du travail manuel, symbole d'un univers en voie de disparition.

une archéologie de l'ère industrielle

La main de l'homme

For six years Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there--this irreplaceable treasure of humanity in which the immense power of nature is felt like nowhere else on earth.

Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia

Christian Caujolle

First published in April 2000, Migrations and its companion volume, The Children, have been garnering tremendous international attention ever since. Exhibited across the globe, from Brazil to Paris and Germany to New York, Sebastião Salgado's photographs continue to tour and to transform the perceptions of those who view them. As a testament to both their power and their relevance, a major exhibition of photographs from The Children was mounted as part of the United Nations Millennium Assembly in 2000. In Migrations, internationally renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado turns his attention to the staggering phenomenon of mass migration. In photographs taken over seven years and across more than thirty-five countries, this volume documents the epic displacement of the world's people at the close of the twentieth century. Wars, natural disasters, environmental degradation, explosive population growth, and the widening gap between rich and poor have resulted in over one hundred million international migrants, a number that has doubled in the span of a decade. This extraordinary level of demographic change is unparalleled in human history, and presents profound challenges to the most basic notions of nation, culture, community, and citizenship. The first pictorial survey to extensively chronicle the current global flux of humanity, Migrations follows Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, and many others. The images address suffering while revealing the profound dignity, courage, and energy of the subjects. With his unique vision and empathy, Salgado gives us a clearer picture of the enormous social and political transformations now occurring in a world divided between excess and need. First published in April 2000, Migrations and its companion volume, The Children, have been garnering tremendous international attention ever since. Exhibited across the globe, from Brazil to Paris and Germany to New York, Sebastião Salgado's photographs continue to tour and to transform the perceptions of those who view them. As a testament to both their power and their relevance, a major exhibition of photographs from The Children was mounted as part of the United Nations Millennium Assembly in 2000. In Migrations, internationally renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado turns his attention to the staggering phenomenon of mass migration. In photographs taken over seven years and across more than thirty-five countries, this volume documents the epic displacement of the world's people at the close of the twentieth century. Wars, natural disasters, environmental degradation, explosive population growth, and the widening gap between rich and poor have resulted in over one hundred million international migrants, a number that has doubled in the span of a decade. This extraordinary level of demographic change is unparalleled in human history, and presents profound challenges to the most basic notions of nation, culture, community, and citizenship. The first pictorial survey to extensively chronicle the current global flux of humanity, Migrations follows Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, and many others. The images address suffering while revealing the profound dignity, courage, and energy of the subjects. With his unique vision and empathy, Salgado gives us a clearer picture of the enormous social and political transformations now occurring in a world divided between excess and need.

Sebastião Salgado

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