"This book is a portrait of human dignity." - Gabriel García Márquez - HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE workers series by Sebastiao Salgado ("Genesis", "Gold"), the famous Brazilian photographer - a photobook classic. "Salgado shows the pain, beauty and brutality of the world of work on which everything else rests. A work that is imbued with deep conviction and bears witness to great skill." - Arthur Miller SEBASTIAO SALGADO initially worked with the photo agency Sygma and the Paris-based Gamma, but in 1979 he joined the international cooperative of photographers MAGNUM Photos. He left MAGNUM in 1994 and with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado formed his own agency, Amazonas Images, in Paris, to represent his work. He is particularly noted for his social documentary photography of workers in less developed nations. His work resides in Paris. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main. 1993. First German edition, first printing. First German editon which was published in the same layout, content and size and at the same time like the first English edition ("Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age", Aperture, 1993). Hardcover with dustjacket and with 12-pages text booklet. 255 x 335 mm. 399 pages. Photos: Sebastiao Salgado. Layout: Lelia Wanick Salgado. Text in German. Condition: Book inside and outside excellent, like new and unread; super fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket very fresh, complete with no tears and with no missing parts; very light trace of use. Overall very fine condition. FANTASTIC PHOTOBOOK - in FANTASTIC FRESH CONDITION. "Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior, born in 1944, is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world. Salgado is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982, Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993. He has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016. It was on his travels to Africa that he first started seriously taking photographs. He chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched to photography in 1973, working initially on news assignments before veering more towards documentary-type work. Salgado initially worked with the photo agency Sygma and the Paris-based Gamma, but in 1979, he joined the international cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos. He left Magnum in 1994 and with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado formed his own agency, Amazonas Images, in Paris, to represent his work. He is particularly noted for his social documentary photography of workers in less developed nations. His work resides in Paris. Salgado works on long term, self-assigned projects, many of which have been published as books: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations, and Genesis. The latter three are mammoth collections with hundreds of images each from all around the world. His most famous pictures are of a gold mine in Brazil called Serra Pelada. He has also been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2001. Between 2004 and 2011, Salgado worked on Genesis, aiming at the presentation of the unblemished faces of nature and humanity. It consists of a series of photographs of landscapes and wildlife, as well as of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures. This body of work is conceived as a potential path to humanity's rediscovery of itself in nature. In September and October 2007, Salgado displayed his photographs of coffee workers from India, Guatemala, Ethiopia and Brazil at the Brazilian Embassy in London. The aim of the project was to raise public awareness of the origins of the popular drink. Salgado has photographed the landscape and people of the Amazon rainforest (Amazónia) in Brazil. Salgado and his work are the focus of the film The Salt of the Earth (2014), directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado's son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, and produced by Lélia Wanick Salgado." (Wikipedia)