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Voir la traductionSebastiao Salgado - Gold. Serra Pelada Gold Mine - 2019
Nº 89070897
“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)
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FANTASTIC PHOTOBOOK about THE MOST FAMOUS SERIES by the legendary Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado about the most famous series by the photographer - about the gold mine Serra Pelada in Brazil.
New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil.
COLLECTOR'S COPY.
"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 Sebastião Salgado’s photographs. This collection is a major document of modern history and an extraordinary photographic portfolio."
(from the publisher)
Taschen, Cologne. 2019. First edition, first printing.
Hardcover with dustjacket. 243 x 355 mm. 208 pages. Photos: Sebastião Salgado. Conception and design: Lélia Wanick Salgado. Text: Alan Riding. Text: French, English, German.
Very beautiful photobook - in perfect condition.
"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."
(from the publisher)
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“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)
Welcome to the next edition of the very popular one-seller auctions by Ecki Heuser, 5Uhr30.com (Cologne, Germany) - on Catawiki. We are offering some of the best international photobooks ever published. We guarantee: detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% protection, 100% insurance and combined shipping worldwide.
FANTASTIC PHOTOBOOK about THE MOST FAMOUS SERIES by the legendary Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado about the most famous series by the photographer - about the gold mine Serra Pelada in Brazil.
New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil.
COLLECTOR'S COPY.
"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 Sebastião Salgado’s photographs. This collection is a major document of modern history and an extraordinary photographic portfolio."
(from the publisher)
Taschen, Cologne. 2019. First edition, first printing.
Hardcover with dustjacket. 243 x 355 mm. 208 pages. Photos: Sebastião Salgado. Conception and design: Lélia Wanick Salgado. Text: Alan Riding. Text: French, English, German.
Very beautiful photobook - in perfect condition.
"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."
(from the publisher)
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