Sebastião Salgado. Genesis (Icon) (French Edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3754400622 ISBN 13: 9783754400623

Publisher: TASCHEN, 2024

Synopsis

Sebastião Salgado’s haunting black-and-white photographs from the GENESIS project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of modern society and development. Salgado calls GENESIS “my love letter to the planet.”

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About the Authors

Lélia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s, she began to conceive and design the majority of Sebastião Salgado’s photography books and all of the exhibitions of his work. 

Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos. In 1994, he and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado created Amazonas Images which exclusively handles his work. Salgado’s photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Sahel. L’Homme en détresse (1986), Other Americas (1986), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), The Scent of a Dream (2015), Kuwait. A Desert on Fire (2016), Gold (2019) and Amazônia (2021).

Edition details

• Publisher: TASCHEN
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 3754400622
• ISBN 13: 9783754400623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Salgado Llia Wanick