Sebastiao Salgado: An Uncertain Grace, first edition ©1990 Photojournalist

Description: Sebastião Salgado: An Uncertain GraceEssays by Eduardo Galeano, and Fred RitchiePublished by Aperture Foundation Inc, (New York), 1990ISBN 10: 0893814601 Deeply moving beautiful black and white photography, this personal monograph is a global examination of people struggling to survive however "These people are more than the limitations of their poverty, their forgotten labors, their suffering, performing manual labor and the struggles of famine." Very Good. First edition, softcover, Square folio. Corners a little bent, wear on edges of cover, otherwise near fine. A world-renowned exemplar of the venerated tradition of “concerned photography," Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize in recognition of his accomplishments from institutions in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, and the United States. Here he has been named "Photographer of the Year," "Photojournalist of the Year," was cited by the Overseas Press Club for “best photographic reporting from abroad" and was awarded the grant in humanistic photography in memory of famed photographer W. Eugene Smith. Salgado is a member of the prestigious Magnum photo agency. From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastiāo Salgado explores the lives of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart. Born in Brazil, the 46-year-old photographer began his career as an economist before shifting to photography in 1973. From his base in Paris, Salgado has covered major news events the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, wars in Angola and the Spanish Sahara, the taking of Israeli hostages in Entebbe-as well as pursuing more personal and in-depth documentary projects. For seven years, he roamed Latin America, walking for days to remote mountain villages, to produce a major work on the "other Americans," Indian peasants-stoic, dignified, and powerful in their poverty and isolation. In the mid-80s, Salgado worked over 15 months with a French humanitarian aid group in the famine-engulfed Sahel region of Africa, and created a moving, extraordinarily human document of the beauty and strength of people in the deepest most abominable kind of suffering. Now he has embarked on a global look at the end of mass labor, before manual workers are replaced by computers and robots -a journey that has so far taken him to China, India, the Soviet Union, Bangladesh, Cuba, France, Brazil, and the United States. Uruguayan writer EDUARDO GALEANO, Who introduces Sebastião Salgado's photographs, is the author of the critically acclaimed trilogy, Memory of Fire, a literary creation" that "relates what has happened, the history of America, and above all, the history of Latin America." Born in 1940, Galeano began his career as a political caricaturist, and edited various weekly and daily publications, Marcha and Epoca among them. In 1973 he went into exile in Argentina, where he founded and edited the magazine, Crisis. He lives once again in Uruguay. FRED RITCHIN served as guest curator for the exhibition of the work of Sebastião Salgado at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on which this book is based. He has also curated Contemporary Latin American Photographers," a 100-print exhibition which opened at New York's Burden Gallery, and was consulting curator for a fortieth-anniversary exhibition of the work of photographers from the Magnum agency including Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Ritchin was director of photography at the New York Times Magazine and executive editor of Camera Arts magazine. He teaches at New York University and lectures widely. #photojounalism #famousphotographer #artbook #rarebook #concernedphotography #humanrights #humanitarian #SebastiãoSalgado #AnUncertainGrace #magnumagency #Crisismagazine #photojournalist #bwphotography

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