Sebastiao Salgado (1944-2025) - Lot 5 works
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Sebastião Salgado, Lot 5 works, a lithograph book of 32 pages with five works, 30 × 23 cm, in good condition, produced in Spain as a limited edition from 1950–1960 and not signed.
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Sebastiao Salgado (1944-2025)
30x23cm
Contacto
Year: 2008, in life of the artist.
Book with around 32 pages and 5 works
While commercially coveted figures like Man Ray, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Prince dominate the ranks of the world's most expensive photographers, and legendary modern artists like Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Gerhard Richter command the peak of modern art history, Sebastião Salgado's profound significance lies in a completely different realm of value. Instead of pursuing the conceptual abstractions, pop ironies, or market-driven spectacles of top-tier art and high-end photography, Salgado relies on masterfully composed, high-contrast black-and-white documentary photography to serve as the ultimate visual conscience of our planet. His epic humanitarian and environmental series do not just capture aesthetic beauty; they build a monumental bridge between fine art and urgent global activism, ensuring that his legacy is measured not by auction records, but by its enduring impact on human empathy and ecological preservation.
Sebastião Salgado is one of the best photographers of the 20th century, along with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Philippe Halsman, Elliott Erwitt, Annie Leibovitz or Robert Capa; he was considered an icon of 20th century culture, like Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons or Banksy.
In good condition.
Careful packaging and international registered shipping
Packed with care and international registered shipping.
Sebastiao Salgado (1944-2025)
30x23cm
Contacto
Year: 2008, in life of the artist.
Book with around 32 pages and 5 works
While commercially coveted figures like Man Ray, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Prince dominate the ranks of the world's most expensive photographers, and legendary modern artists like Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Gerhard Richter command the peak of modern art history, Sebastião Salgado's profound significance lies in a completely different realm of value. Instead of pursuing the conceptual abstractions, pop ironies, or market-driven spectacles of top-tier art and high-end photography, Salgado relies on masterfully composed, high-contrast black-and-white documentary photography to serve as the ultimate visual conscience of our planet. His epic humanitarian and environmental series do not just capture aesthetic beauty; they build a monumental bridge between fine art and urgent global activism, ensuring that his legacy is measured not by auction records, but by its enduring impact on human empathy and ecological preservation.
Sebastião Salgado is one of the best photographers of the 20th century, along with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Philippe Halsman, Elliott Erwitt, Annie Leibovitz or Robert Capa; he was considered an icon of 20th century culture, like Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons or Banksy.
In good condition.
Careful packaging and international registered shipping
Packed with care and international registered shipping.
Details
Artist
Sebastiao Salgado (1944-2025)
Sold by
Owner or reseller
Edition
Limited edition
Title of artwork
Lot 5 works
Technique
Lithograph
Signature
Not signed
Country of origin
Spain
Condition
Good condition
Height
30 cm
Width
23 cm
Style
Classical
Period
1950-1960
Sold with frame
No
