Terra struggle of the landless - Couverture souple

Salgado, Sebastiao

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714837008 ISBN 13 : 9780714837000

Editeur : Phaidon, 1999

Synopsis

Since the unprecedented success of Workers (published by Phaidon in 1993), Sebastião Salgado has been focusing his attention on the displacement of peoples across geographical and political boundaries. The series of pictures in Terra tells the story of the forced migration of the Brazilian peasants and their struggle to survive in the face of joblessness and extreme poverty.

Salgado shows the efforts of the peasants to reclaim the arable land they see as their natural heritage and recounts how this fight has often resulted in bloodshed. His empathy and understanding of the victims' plight and of human nature unbowed in the face of terrible adversity shines forth in these photographs, which are introduced by the Portuguese writer José Saramago and accompanied by poems by the Brazilian composer and popular singer Chico Buarque de Hollanda. Comprising 109 compelling photographs (the majority of which have never been seen before), this book is a moving photographic record of the 'landless' of Brazil.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sebastião Salgado (b.1944) is one of the leading photojournalists working in the world today. Born in Brazil and trained as an economist, his political activities led to his exile in the late 1960s working as a photojournalist in 1973. He has reveived many awards, including the W Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, and his many books have been published to great acclaim. He is currently based in Paris.

José Saramago is a Potuguese writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phaidon
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0714837008
• ISBN 13: 9780714837000
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 143
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible