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    Sebastiao Salgado 1

  • 1. Sebastião Salgado 1

  • 2. Sebastião Salgado 1/2 Sebastião Salgado was born on February 8th, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He lives in Paris. Having studied economics, Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in 1973 in Paris, working with the photo agencies  Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos  until 1994, when he and Lélia Wanick Salgado formed  Amazonas images , an agency created exclusively for his work. He has travelled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these, besides appearing in numerous press publications, have also been presented in books such as  Other Americas  (1986), Sahel: l’homme en détresse  (1986),  Sahel: el fin del camino  (1988),  Workers  (1993),  Terra  (1997),  Migrations and Portraits  (2000), and  Africa  (2007). Touring exhibitions of this work have been, and continue to be, presented throughout the world.  Sebastião Salgado has been awarded numerous major photographic p

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    A Different Light: The Photography of Sebastião Salgado 9780822394372

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    A Different Light

    parvati nair

    A Different Light the photography of sebastião salgado Duke University Press Durham and London 2011

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    Contents

    ackNowledgmeNTS  ix iNTroducTioN Photo-Trajectory 1

    1 The Moving Lens

    Abiding Concerns and Photographic Projects 49

    2 Engaging Photography

    Between the Aesthetic and the Documentary 119

    3 Eye Witness

    On Photography and Historiography 167

    4 Just Regard

    On Photography, Aesthetics, and Ethics 217

    5 The Practice of Photography Toward a Polity o

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    Sebastião Salgado

    Brazilian photographer

    In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name fryst vatten Ribeiro and the second or paternal family name fryst vatten Salgado.

    Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, 1944)[2] 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,[3] utländsk Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992[4] and the Royal Photographic Society's hundraårsdag Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993.[5] He has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016.[6][7]

    Early life and educa