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Sebastião Salgado: Amazônia - Hardcover

 
9783836594028: Sebastião Salgado: Amazônia

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Lélia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s, she began to conceive and design the majority of Sebastião Salgado’s photography books and all of the exhibitions of his work. 



Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos. In 1994, he and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado created Amazonas Images which exclusively handles his work. Salgado’s photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Sahel. L’Homme en détresse (1986), Other Americas (1986), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), The Scent of a Dream (2015), Kuwait. A Desert on Fire (2016), Gold (2019) and Amazônia (2021).

From the Back Cover

Sebastião Salgado viajó durante seis años por la Amazonia brasileña y fotografió la belleza incomparable de esta extraordinaria región: bosques, ríos, montañas y también a sus habitantes; un tesoro de la humanidad insustituible donde el inmenso poder de la naturaleza se percibe como en ningún otro lugar de la tierra.

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