Sebastiao Salgado Migrations; Humanity in Transition

Sebastiao Salgado

ISBN 10: 0893818917 / ISBN 13: 9780893818913

Published by Aperture, 2000

About this Item

(33.5 x 25.5 cm.) Quarto. 432 pages. Black cloth in dust jacket. SIGNED by Sebastiao Salgado on the half title page. A beautiful copy in equally nice dust jacket. Sections include: I - Migrants and Refugees: The Survival Instinct, II - The African Tragedy: A Continent Adrift, III - Latin America: Rural Exodus, Urban disorder, Asia: The World's New Urban Face. Also includes 31 page text pamphlet titled Migrations in back pocket. From the back cover - "The first pictorial survey to extensively chronicle the current global flux of humanity, MIGRATIONS is internationally renowned photographer Sebastiao Salgado's view of the epic displacement of the world's people at the close of the twentieth century. In photographs taken over seven years and across more than thirty-five countries, MIGRATIONS follows Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, and many other displaced and migrant populations.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sebastiao Salgado Migrations; Humanity in Transition
• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893818917
• ISBN 13: 9780893818913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

In Migrations, Sebastião Salgado turns his attention to the staggering phenomenon of mass migration. Photographs taken over seven years across more than 35 countries document the epic displacement of the world's people at the close of the twentieth century. Wars, natural disasters, environmental degradation, explosive population growth and the widening gap between rich and poor have resulted in over one hundred million international migrants, a number that has doubled in a decade. This demographic change, unparalleled in human history, presents profound challenges to the notions of nation, community, and citizenship. The first extensive pictorial survey of the current global flux of humanity, Migrations follows Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania and many others. The images address suffering while revealing the dignity and courage of the subjects. With his unique vision and empathy, Salgado gives us a picture of the enormous social and political transformations now occurring in a world divided between excess and need.

About the Author

A world-renowned exemplar of the tradition of "concerned photography," Sebastião Salgado has been awarded virtually every major photographic prize in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. A recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, he was twice named Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography.