Sebastião Salgado - Exodes - 2000

RARE Original edition, published in 2000 and first printing: "Exodes" by the renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado.
Very beautiful and large book in excellent condition. Very nice print.

Hardcover, with an explanatory text booklet for each photograph, hardcover and dust jacket, a very fine copy - Editions de La Martinière, Paris - 2000 - Printed in Switzerland - Weight 3.65 Kg - 432 pages

Excellent condition, (book is 26 years old): wear to the dust jacket, scuffs and small scratches. Binding, hardcover and all pages are perfect.

Exodes is a documentary photography book. Salgado studies mass movements of population, exoduses, forced migrations, displacements caused by war, famine, political or environmental crises. The work of Salgado spans several years and covers more than forty countries.

Sebastião Salgado, born in 1944, grows up on a farm in Minas Gerais, a rural region of Brazil marked by nature and social inequalities.
He studies economics at the University of São Paulo, then goes into exile in France in the 1970s with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, fleeing the Brazilian military dictatorship.
His view of the world initially stems from an economic reflection: he wants to understand the imbalances of global development. But it is through photography that he ultimately chooses to bear witness.
He begins photography around 1973, relatively late, while he was working as an economist for the International Coffee Organization.
Very quickly, he leaves his profession to devote himself to photography full-time.
He collaborates with agencies Sygma, Gamma and Magnum Photos, where he develops a style focused on human dignity even in suffering.
With his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, he founded in 1998 the Instituto Terra, an NGO for reforestation in Brazil.
The couple transformed their former devastated farm into a forest reserve of more than 2 million trees replanted.
This project revived biodiversity in the region and symbolizes the continuity between his photographic work and his ecological commitment.
Awards and honors:
- Hasselblad Foundation Award (1989)
- Prince of Asturias Award (1998)
- Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (France)
- Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Numerous international photojournalism prizes (World Press Photo, ICP, etc.)

Very carefully packed shipment with tracking number and insurance.



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