Genesis.

SALGADO, Sebastiao; Lelia Wanick Salgado.

$400.00

Item Number: 148144

Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2013.

First edition of this powerful work by the award-winning photographer. Folio, original boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Sebastiao Salgado on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

A gifted photographer and a man of great compassion, Salgado does not take frivolous pictures. Here he returns to Brazil to document the lives of peasants forced off the land by the industrialization of agriculture, "landless" farmers, some of whom were massacred when they staged a demonstration in 1996. The struggle for land continues, but there is hope, and hope, along with quiet pride, is present even in the most strained visages recorded in Salgado's magnificent duotones, works of art that convey far more "information" than televised news reports.