“What is it about a dull yellow metal that drives men to abandon their homes, sell their belongings and cross a continent in order to risk life, limbs and sanity for a dream?” – Sebastião Salgado
When Sebastião Salgado was finally authorized to visit Serra Pelada in September 1986, having been blocked for six years by Brazil’s military authorities, he was ill-prepared to take in the extraordinary spectacle that awaited him on this remote hilltop on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. Before him opened a vast hole, some 200 meters wide and deep, teeming with tens of thousands of barely-clothed men. Half of them carried sacks weighing up to 40 kilograms up wooden ladders, the others leaping down muddy slopes back into the cavernous maw. Their bodies and faces were the color of ochre, stained by the iron ore in the earth they had excavated.
After gold was discovered in one of its streams in 1979, Serra Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world’s largest open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling conditions. Today, Brazil’s wildest gold rush is merely the stuff of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained regrets—and Sebastião Salgado’s photographs.
Color dominated the glossy pages of magazines when Salgado shot these images. Black and white was a risky path, but the Serra Pelada portfolio would mark a return to the grace of monochrome photography, following a tradition whose masters, from Edward Weston and Brassaï to Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, had defined the early and mid-20th century. When Salgado’s images reached The New York Times Magazine, something extraordinary happened: there was complete silence. “In my entire career at The New York Times,” recalled photo editor Peter Howe, “I never saw editors react to any set of pictures as they did to Serra Pelada.”
Today, with photography absorbed by the art world and digital manipulation, Salgado’s portfolio holds a biblical quality and projects an immediacy that makes them vividly contemporary. The mine at Serra Pelada has been long closed, yet the intense drama of the gold rush leaps out of these images.
This book gathers Salgado’s complete Serra Pelada portfolio in museum-quality reproductions, accompanied by a foreword by the photographer and an essay by Alan Riding.
Also available in a signed and limited Collector’s Edition and as an Art Edition.
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Alan Riding est un auteur anglais d'origine brésilienne, ancien correspondant permanent du New York Times à l'étranger. Après avoir travaillé dans plusieurs antennes du journal, au Mexique, au Brésil et en France, puis en tant que correspondant européen spécialisé dans les arts, il écrit à présent pour le théâtre. Habitant à Paris, comme Sebastião Salgado, il en est l'ami et le collaborateur depuis les années 1980.
Sebastião Salgado a commencé sa carrière de photographe professionnel à Paris en 1973 et a travaillé avec les agences de photographie Sygma, Gamma et Magnum Photos. En 1994, lui et sa femme, Lélia Wanick Salgado, créent Amazonas images (aujourd'hui, cette agence est leur studio), qui gère exclusivement son oeuvre. Les projets photographiques de Salgado ont été l'objet de nombreux livres et expositions dont Sahel. L'Homme en détresse (1986), Autres Amériques (1986), La Main de l'homme (1993), Terra (1997), Exodes (2000), Les Enfants de l'exode (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), Terres de Café (2015), Koweït. Un désert en feu (2016) et Gold (2019).
Lélia Wanick Salgado a étudié l'architecture et l'urbanisme à Paris. Elle a commencé à s'intéresser à la photographie en 1970. Dans les années 1980, elle conçoit la plupart des livres de photographies de Sebastião Salgado et toutes les expositions consacrées à son oeuvre. En 1994, Lélia Wanick Salgado devient directrice d'Amazonas images (jusqu'en 2017) et de leur studio parisien.
Durante una década, Serra Pelada, la mina de oro a cielo abierto más grande del mundo, evocó el mito de El Dorado. En ella trabajaron cerca de 50.000 trabajadores en condiciones infrahumanas. Hoy, aquella fiebre del oro salvaje es solo una leyenda que se mantiene viva gracias a algunos recuerdos felices, a muchos lamentos dolorosos... y a las fotografías de Sebastião Salgado. Esta colección es un documento sobresaliente de la historia moderna y un porfolio fotográfico extraordinario.
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Salgado, Llia Wanick (illustrateur). Hardcover. "What is it about a dull yellow metal that drives men to abandon their homes, sell their belongings and cross a continent in order to risk life, limbs and sanity for a dream?" - Sebastiao Salgado When Sebastiao Salgado was finally authorized to visit Serra Pelada in September 1986, having been blocked for six years by Brazil's military authorities, he was ill-prepared to take in the extraordinary spectacle that awaited him on this remote hilltop on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. Before him opened a vast hole, some 200 meters wide and deep, teeming with tens of thousands of barely-clothed men. Half of them carried sacks weighing up to 40 kilograms up wooden ladders, the others leaping down muddy slopes back into the cavernous maw. Their bodies and faces were the color of ochre, stained by the iron ore in the earth they had excavated. After gold was discovered in one of its streams in 1979, Serra Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world's largest open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling conditions. Today, Brazil's wildest gold rush is merely the stuff of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained regrets-and Sebastiao Salgado's photographs. Color dominated the glossy pages of magazines when Salgado shot these images. Black and white was a risky path, but the Serra Pelada portfolio would mark a return to the grace of monochrome photography, following a tradition whose masters, from Edward Weston and Brassai to Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, had defined the early and mid-20th century. When Salgado's images reached The New York Times Magazine, something extraordinary happened: there was complete silence. "In my entire career at The New York Times," recalled photo editor Peter Howe, "I never saw editors react to any set of pictures as they did to Serra Pelada." Today, with photography absorbed by the art world and digital manipulation, Salgado's portfolio holds a biblical quality and projects an immediacy that makes them vividly contemporary. The mine at Serra Pelada has been long closed, yet the intense drama of the gold rush leaps out of these images. This book gathers Salgado's complete Serra Pelada portfolio in museum-quality reproductions, accompanied by a foreword by the photographer and an essay by Alan Riding.INSTITUTO TERRAFounded in 1998 at Aimores in the state of Minas Gerais, Instituto Terra is the culmination of Lelia Wanick Salgado and Sebastiao Salgado's lifelong activism and work as cultural documentarians. Through a scientific program of planting and raising saplings, the organization has performed a miraculous reforestation of the once infertile region and furthered the Salgados' mission of reversing the damage done to our planet. TASCHEN is proud to reach carbon zero status through our continued partnership.Also available in a signed and limited Collector's Edition For a decade, Serra Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world's largest open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling conditions. Today, Brazil's gold rush is merely the stuff of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained regrets-and Sebastiao Salgado's photographs. This collection is a major document. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783836575089
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