Migrations: humanity in transition - Hardcover

Salgado, Sebastiao

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0893818917 ISBN 13: 9780893818913

Publisher: Aperture, 2005

Synopsis

The renowned pioneer of "concerned photography" turns his compassionate lens to the subject of human displacement, selecting images from the last seven years of his work that span thirty-five countries and depicting the mass movement and mass suffering of the world's refugee population.

About this title

Synopsis:

The first pictorial survey to extensively chronicle the current global flux of humanity, Migrations is internationally renowned photographer Sebastiao Salgado's view of the epic displacement of the world's people at the close of the twentieth century. In photographs taken over seven years and across more than thirty-five countries, Migrations follows Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans travelling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, and many other displaced and migrant populations. Sebastiao Ribeiro Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden and the United States. Trained as an economist, he began working as a photojournalist in 1973. A former member of Magnum Photos and recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, he has twice been named Photographer of the year by the Intemational Centre of Photography, New York.

About the Author:

A world-renowned exemplar of the tradition of "concerned photography," Sebastião Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. A recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, he was twice named Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0893818917
• ISBN 13: 9780893818913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432