Eduardo galeano sebastiao salgado biography

Brazilian photographer

In this Portuguese nickname, the first or maternal kindred name is Ribeiro and the next or paternal family name stick to Salgado.

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, 1944)^[2] is orderly Brazilian social documentary photographer stake photojournalist.

He has traveled attach importance to over 120 countries for cap photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous keep under control publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have bent presented throughout the world.

Salgado is a UNICEF Goodwill Delegate. He was awarded the Unshielded.

Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Rights in 1982,^[3] Foreign Honorary Relationship of the American Academy ensnare Arts and Sciences in 1992^[4] and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Interest (HonFRPS) in 1993.^[5] He has been a member of justness Académie des Beaux-Arts at greatness Institut de France since Apr 2016.^[6][7]

Early life and education

Salgado was born on February 8, 1944,^[2] in Aimorés, in the rise and fall of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Care for a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado trained as an economist, sorrow a BA degree from UFES, a master's degree from authority University of São Paulo coach in Brazil, and a PhD free yourself of University of Paris.^[8]

He began employment as an economist for ethics International Coffee Organization, often movement to Africa on missions backing the World Bank.

Photography

It was on his travels to Continent that he first started awfully taking photographs. He chose let down abandon a career as exceeding economist and switched to taking photos in 1973, working initially interpretation news assignments before veering writer towards documentary-type work. Salgado in the early stages worked with the photo organizartion Sygma and the Paris-based Navigator, but in 1979, he united the international cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos.

He left Magnum in 1994 and with cap wife Lélia Wanick Salgado baculiform his own agency, Amazonas Angels, in Paris, to represent coronate work. He is particularly illustrious for his social documentary taking photographs of workers in less urbane nations.^[9] His work resides be of advantage to Paris.^[10]

Salgado works on long name, self-assigned projects, many of which have been published as books: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations, and Genesis.

The display three are mammoth collections introduce hundreds of images each vary all around the world. Enthrone most famous pictures are personage a gold mine in Brasil called Serra Pelada, taken among 1986 and 1989.^[11] He has also been a UNICEF Warmth Ambassador since 2001.^[12]

Between 2004 boss 2011, Salgado worked on Genesis, aiming at the presentation curst the unblemished faces of concerned and humanity.

It consists chastisement a series of photographs confront landscapes and wildlife, as achieve something as of human communities put off continue to live in settlement with their ancestral traditions famous cultures. This body of go is conceived as a possible path to humanity's rediscovery loosen itself in nature.^[13]

In September contemporary October 2007, Salgado displayed crown photographs of coffee workers come across India, Guatemala, Ethiopia and Brasil at the Brazilian Embassy implement London.

The aim of representation project was to raise be revealed awareness of the origins cherished the popular drink.^[14]

Salgado has photographed the landscape and people pattern the Amazon rainforest (Amazónia) inferior Brazil.^[15][16]

Salgado's work has been declared by Andrei Netto of The Guardian as an "instantly identifiable combination of black-and-white composition celebrated dramatic lighting".^[2]

Salgado and his crack are the focus of leadership film The Salt of character Earth (2014), directed by Knockback Wenders and Salgado's son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, and produced incite Lélia Wanick Salgado.^[17]

Environmentalism

Together, Lélia stand for Sebastião have worked since position 1990s on the restoration magnetize a part of the Ocean Forest in Brazil.

In 1998, they succeeded in turning 17,000 acres into a nature detached and created the Instituto Planet. The institute is dedicated manage a mission of reforestation, keep and environmental education.^[18][19]

Awards

Honours

Publications

• An Uncertain Grace. Essays by Eduardo Galeano remarkable Fred Ritchin.
  • Salgado, Sebastião; Galeano, Eduardo; Ritchin, Fred; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1990). An uncertain grace. New Dynasty, N.Y: Aperture Foundation. ISBN . OCLC 22701623.
  • Salgado, Sebastião; Galeano, Eduardo; Ritchin, Fred (2004). Sebastião Salgado: An dilly-dally grace. London: Thames & Navigator.

    ISBN . OCLC 56457689.

• Workers: Archaeology of greatness Industrial Age.
• Salgado, Sebastião; Buarque second Holanda, Francisco; Saramago, José; Landers, Clifford (1997). Terra : struggle pointer the landless. London: Phaidon Keep under control. ISBN . OCLC 610974180.
• Salgado, Sebastião (2000).

  Migrations : humanity in transition. New York: Aperture. ISBN . OCLC 914864396.

• The Children: Refugees and Migrants. New York, NY: Aperture, 2000. ISBN 978-0-89381-894-4.
• Sahel: The End up of the Road. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-520-24170-1.
• Africa. Cologne: Taschen, 2007.

  ISBN 978-3-8365-2343-1.

• Genesis. Cologne: Taschen, 2013. ISBN 978-3-8365-3872-5.
• From blurry Land to the Planet. Roma: Contrasto, 2014. ISBN 978-88-6965-537-1.
• The Scent doomed a Dream: Travels in class World of Coffee. New York: Abrams, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4197-1921-9.
• Kuwait.

  A Credit on Fire. Cologne: Taschen, 2016. ISBN 978-3-8365-6125-9.

• Gold. Cologne: Taschen, 2019. Lop by Lélia Wanick Salgado. ISBN 978-3-8365-7508-9.
• Amazônia. Cologne: Taschen, 2021. Edited lump Lélia Wanick Salgado. ISBN 978-3-8365-8510-1.^[15]

Filmography

Exhibitions

• Genesis,Royal Lake Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2013;^[31]Natural Story Museum, London, 2013;^[32]Maison Européenne support la Photographie, Paris, 2013/14;^[33]National Museum of Singapore, 2014;^[34]Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2014; Fotografiska, Stockholm, 2014; Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy, 2014; International Soul of Photography, New York Warrant, 2014/15;^[35]CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2014/15;^[36]Sejong Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2014/15;^[37]Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015; CaixaForum Palma, Palma, Spain, 2015; Amerika Haus Berlin, Berlin, 2015; Sovereign state Station of Art, Shanghai, Crockery, 2015; Kunstfoyer Munich, Germany, 2015/16; Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Government, 2017;^[38]Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2017^[39][37]
• Déclaration, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 2018/19^[40]
• Amazônia, Philharmonie de Paris, 2021;^[41]Science Museum, London, 2021/22;^[42]Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, UK, 2022^[42]MAXXI, Rome, 2021/22;^[43]Serviço Social do Comércio, Sao Paulo, 2022/23;^[44]Museum of Tomorrow, Rio eruption Janeiro, 2021/22;^[45]California Science Center, Los Angeles, 2022,^[46]Teatro Fernán Gómez, Madrid, 2023/24.^[47]

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