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Working in colour for the first time, Nick Brandt’s latest project uses complex composition and dramatically cinematic staging to highlight environmental degradation in the world and its effect on both animal and human life

This Empty World, Nick Brandt’s new monograph, features a series of dramatically staged photographs that bring together and reveal the animals and people of East Africa as the victims of environmental degradation in an emotionally powerful, cinematic way.

Moving into colour photography for the first time, the work is both a technical tour-de-force and a massively ambitious project in which the sets are constructed on a scale typically seen in major film production. Each panoramic image is a combination of two moments in time, almost all of them captured weeks apart from the exact same camera position.

Brandt first builds and lights a partial set, then waits for the animals that inhabit the region to enter the frame. Once captured on camera, the full set is built with the camera remaining fixed in place. The sets include bridge and highway construction sites, a petrol station, a bus station and even a dead forest. Completing the scene with a huge cast drawn from local communities, Brandt then photographs the second sequence. The final large scale prints are a composite of the two intricately plotted elements.

Viewed as a whole, the images vividly illustrate a world in which, overwhelmed by runaway human development, there is no longer space for animals to survive, and beg the question: what kind of world will we live in when stripped of its natural wonders.

About the Author:

Nick Brandt (b.1964) is an English-born, US-based photographer whose themes always relate to the disappearing natural world. He is the co-founder of the Big Life Foundation, in Kenya, where all of these photographs were shot.

У Paris Blues Матьє Біттон демонструє красу та чарівність міста Париж, яке має для нього особливе значення. Через свій об’єктив він вловлює суть Парижа, місця, яке є домом його дитинства та постійним джерелом натхнення для його мистецької роботи. Біттон відомий своєю здатністю вловлювати правду предмета й автентичність моменту, що також відображено в цій колекції.

Ця книга є не лише даниною пам’яті його рідному місту, а й продовженням його успішних виставок, таких як Travelogue, Ascension та Darker Than Blue, які отримали всесвітнє визнання. Роботи Біттона демонструють глибокий зв’язок із Парижем і пропонують глядачеві інтимний погляд на місто, яке мало тривалий вплив на його спогади та творчість.

_Одне з найпопулярніших і найбільш відвідуваних міст у світі, сфотографоване відомим дизайнером, арт-директором і фотографом Матьє Біттоном
_Посол Leica Матьє Біттон показує захоплюючі картини повсякденного життя Парижа, а також особливі моменти паризького вищого суспільства
_Особисті анекдоти та роздуми дають зрозуміти його спогади та досвід у Місті Світла та демонструють його глибокий зв’язок із Парижем

Про автора:

Матьє Біттон, який народився в Парижі, є відомим фотографом, дизайнером і арт-директором. Він фотографував таких зірок, як Квінсі Джонс, The Rolling Stones і Леді Гага. Багаторазовий лауреат Греммі та кавалер Ордена мистецтв і літератури, Біттон займається дизайном альбомів, плакатів і книг. Його виставки та роль амбасадора Leica підкреслюють його універсальність і відданість справі вловлення правди моменту.

Light and Shadows. Paul Outerbridge’s provocative nudes and pioneering colour

American photographer Paul Outerbridge created shimmering “artifical paradises." From Cubist still life images to nudes, his sensitivity to light and shadow and pioneering use of colour transformed everyday scenarios into near-abstract compositions. This unique aesthetic helped him seductively champion the expressionistic, as much as commercial, potential of colour photography.

Whether in his sumptuous images for advertising or his soft-hued nudes, Paul Outerbridge (1896–1958) was an alchemist of desire. Colour was integral to his aesthetic allure, embracing the complex tri-colour-carbro process to create a seductive surface of texture and tone. His quest was for “artificial paradises” — a perfection of form, with a surreal edge.

This concise monograph introduces Outerbridge’s unique aesthetic and its commercial and artistic trajectory, from his professional peak as New York’s highest-paid commercial photographer through to his retreat to Hollywood in the 1940s after a scandal over his erotic photography. With key examples from his oeuvre, the book explores Outerbridge’s innovative style through Cubist still-life images, magazine photographs, and his controversial nudes, as well as his interaction with other avant-garde photographers, such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Man Ray. Along the way, we recognize Outerbridge’s particular ability to transform everyday objects into a quasi-abstract composition and his pioneering role in championing the expressionistic, as much as commercial, potential of colour photographs.

The editor:

Manfred Heiting is an internationally acknowledged designer, curator, and expert on and collector of photographs and photobooks; he lives in Malibu and Brussels. He is a founding member of the J. Paul Getty Museum Council and since 2016 UCLA Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities. He is editor and designer of Deutschland im Fotobuch, The Soviet Photobook, and The Japanese Photobook and co-editor and designer of Autopsie: Deutschsprachige Fotobücher 1918–1945.

The authors:

Elaine Dines-Cox is an independent art museum curator living in San Francisco. Her 1981 monograph on Paul Outerbridge was the first published catalogue raisonné on an art photographer.

Carol McCusker is Curator of Photography at the University of Florida’s Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida. She is former Curator of Photography the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.

Game Control. An essential, early portrait of Africa’s wildlife crisis

Peter Beard’s landmark publication on Africa’s wildlife crisis remains a seminal account of a continent transformed by the human quest for adventure and “progress.” With hundreds of historical photographs and writings, as well as Beard’s own indelible images of elephant, rhino, and hippo populations, this new edition includes an interview with conservationist Dr. Esmond Bradley Martin.

“The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush...vanishing in acres of trophies and hides and carcasses.” — Peter Beard

A landmark publication on Africa, The End of the Game combines Peter Beard’s salient text and remarkable photographs to document the overpopulation and starvation of tens of thousands of elephants, rhinos, and hippos in Kenya’s Tsavo lowlands and Uganda parklands in the 1960s and ’70s.

Researched and compiled over two decades, and updated several times since with new material, this is Beard’s essential book — a powerful and poignant testimony to the damage done by human intervention in Africa. His own images and writings are supplemented by historical photographs of, and quotations from, the enterprisers, explorers, missionaries, and big-game hunters whose quest for adventure and “progress” were to change the face of a continent: Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Courteney Selous, Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Philip Percival, J. A. Hunter, Ernest Hemingway, and J. H. Patterson.

This new edition includes an interview with conservationist Dr. Esmond Bradley Martin, as well as essays from previous editions by renowned writer Paul Theroux and ecologist Dr. Richard M. Laws, and contributions to the afterword by agronomist Dr. Norman Borlaug. Touching on such themes as distance from nature, density and stress, and loss of common sense, this seminal portrait is as resonant today, amid growing environmental crises, as it was a half-century ago.

The editor and author:

Peter Beard (1938–2020) began taking photographs and keeping diaries from early childhood. By the time he graduated from Yale University, he had developed a keen interest in Africa. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, he worked in Tsavo Park, the Aberdares, and Lake Turkana in Kenya’s northern frontier. A constant creator, Beard the chronicler photographed, wrote, drew, collaged, and assembled a history of his life experiences and our own.

The Lindbergh lens. Unique fashion storytelling that first launched the supermodels

When German photographer Peter Lindbergh shot five young models in downtown New York City in 1989, he produced not only the iconic British Vogue January 1990 cover but also the birth certificate of the supermodels. The image didn’t just bring revered faces together for the first time; it marked the beginning of a new fashion era and a new understanding of female beauty.

Coinciding with his major retrospective at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, this book gathers more than 400 images from four decades of Lindbergh’s photography to celebrate his unique and game-changing storytelling and the new romantic and narrative vision it brought to art and fashion.

Whether in striking single portraits or dramatic situations of figure and setting, we trace the photographer’s cinematic inflections and his provocative play with female archetypes as subjects adopt the guise of dancers, actresses, heroines, and femmes fatales. Raw and seductive at once, we see how Lindbergh’s trademark monochrome pictures also redefined standards of beauty by emphasizing spirit and personality as much as looks, celebrating the elegance and sensuality of older women, and privileging natural and authentic beauty in an era of pervasive retouching.

In a testimony to Lindbergh’s illustrious status in the fashion world, his images are contextualized by commentaries from collaborators such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Nicole Kidman, Grace Coddington, Cindy Crawford, and Anna Wintour, who chose Lindbergh to shoot her first US Vogue cover. Their tributes explain just what makes Lindbergh’s images so unique and powerful.

The photographer:

Peter Lindbergh (1944–2019) was a master of his craft who has made his mark in the halls of photography history, with such credits as shooting the first American Vogue cover under Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, bringing together for the first time a group of young women who would become the ’90s supermodels, and numerous exhibitions at renowned institutions including Victoria & Albert Museum in London and Centre Pompidou in Paris, as well as in solo exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

The author:

Thierry-Maxime Loriot was born in Québec City, Canada, in 1976. After working more than ten years in the fashion industry between New York, Milan, and Paris, he curated the exhibition The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, a blockbuster show seen by more than two million visitors. He collaborates with different magazines and fine art museums around the world on fashion and photography projects.

Серед значущих проектів останніх років його життя Річард Аведон (1923–2004) завершив книгу своїх фотографій жінок.

Завжди виходячи за межі категорій — він був і фешн-фотографом, і відомий як «поет портрета» — Аведон цікавився тим, як елементарні факти сучасного життя та існування людини відображаються в його роботах. А що може бути більш елементарним, ніж жінки, які століттями зачаровували митців? Дивлячись на свою роботу таким чином, Аведон зміг створити незрівнянний погляд на жінок свого часу, бурхливого півстоліття швидкої зміни суспільних звичаїв, культурних ідеалів, популярних стилів і високої моди. Як художник, він глибоко реагував на нюанси виразу, жестів і поведінки, і його фотографії незмінно відкривали вікно у внутрішнє життя його суб’єктів.

Серед них були знаменитості (Мерилін Монро), художники (Марія Каллас, Ісак Дінесен) і моделі високої моди (Сьюзі Паркер, Кейт Мосс) до жінок, які просто привернули його увагу. Як і найкращі твори мистецтва та літератури, портрети Аведона нагадують насичене життя та складний досвід. Пронизливий нарис історика мистецтва Енн Голландер пропонує огляд жіночих образів Аведона за півстоліття.

Про авторів:

Річард Аведон був одним із найвідоміших фотографів 20 століття. Його портрети є авторитетним записом нашої епохи, і він переосмислив модну фотографію. У 1992 році він став першим штатним фотографом The New Yorker.

Енн Холландер є автором кількох книг, зокрема Feeding the Eye, Moving Pictures та Seeing Through Clothes.

У томі зібрана багата добірка фотографій з архівів агентства Magnum Photos, зроблених Робертом Капою, у поєднанні символічних знімків його роботи та зображень, які з’являлися рідше.

Мета полягає в тому, щоб натякнути на деякі грані пристрасного і, зрештою, невловимого характеру, яким був Капа: сміливий свідок свого часу, сильна, ненаситна й водночас незадоволена особистість із рисами азартного гравця. Тому не лише воєнні зображення, які зробили його одним із найвідоміших фотожурналістів ХХ століття, але й менш відомі кадри, які дозволяють оцінити дуже високу формальну якість його фотографії, а разом з нею й його особистість.

- Роберт Капа, видатний фотограф, засновник агентства Magnum; його історія в 366 зображеннях
- Супроводжує виставку в Ровіго, Палаццо Роверелла 8 жовтня 2022 р. - 29 січня 2023 р.

As a photographer, Robert Doisneau is known for his ability to infuse images of daily life with poetic nuance that imbued his photojournalism with an enduring popular appeal. The unprecedented scope of this collection provides the opportunity to study his more composed, aesthetically structured images alongside his snapshots, which offer a more anecdotal account of Doisneau's Paris. Organized thematically, the book leads us on an entrancing tour through the gardens of Paris, along the Seine, and through the crowds of Parisians who define their beloved city. More than 600 photographs-many rare, forgotten, and previously unpublished-are assembled in this beautiful volume to create a unique portrait of Paris. From toddlers scrambling to cross rue de Rivoli to fresh-faced accordionists, from elegant dog walkers to exuberant roller skaters, and from the indelible kiss in front of the Hétel de Ville to cyclists beneath the Eiffel Tower, the magic of Paris in black and white is a timeless treasure. The photographs, edited by Doisneau's daughter, are complemented by citations from the photographer himself, which reveal his profound fascination with the city where he lived and worked

During the golden age when Montparnasse was teeming with artists, Robert Doisneau gained remarkable access to the artists working in Paris from 1937 onwards, and he visited their studios and caught them in various private moments: working, reflecting, and even playing with their children. This book, which includes some previously unpublished photographs, shares Doisneau’s intimate view on the work and lives of these artists. Many remain famous - Picasso, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Giacometti, Saul Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, Foujita - while others have fallen into obscurity, perhaps one day to be rediscovered. Regardless of the artist’s social status - whether major figure of the day or struggling newcomer - Doisneau approached each subject with the same humble eye. His signature black-and-white photographs capture the nostalgia of the period and bear witness to these artists in the act of creating some of the world’s finest art. This book, published in cooperation with Doisneau’s daughters, is a fascinating document of the daily lives of artists by one of the world’s most famous and popular photographers.

From high-society balls and fashion shoots to portraits of artists and scenes from urban life in France, this handsome volume — which features an open spine binding so that it lays flat to show off the photographs to their best advantage — showcases Doisneau’s best photographs for Vogue Paris.

Celebrated photographer Robert Doisneau worked for Vogue from 1949 until 1965, illustrating a postwar France filled with a renewed zest for life. His little-known images of haute couture featured models like Brigitte Bardot and Bettina, who he photographed in the studio and out on the streets. He chronicled the members of the café society in their stately homes and at glamorous costume galas, dancing the night away. Best known for his humanist approach, he masterfully captured scenes from everyday life — from the grace of a wedding procession over a footbridge to the petulance of a child impatient for cake. Doisneau’s photographs captured the spirit of the era and featured celebrities like Karen Blixen, Picasso, Colette, and Jean Cocteau, as well as jazz musicians, movie stars, and humble craftsmen at work. Legendary Vogue editor in chief Edmonde Charles-Roux’s personal homage to the photographer — who was her friend and colleague — offers intimate insight into the man behind the camera, as complex and beautiful as the people and places he immortalized.

From high-society balls and fashion shoots to portraits of artists and scenes from urban life in France, this handsome volume — which features an open spine binding so that it lays flat to show off the photographs to their best advantage — showcases Doisneau’s best photographs for Vogue Paris.

Celebrated photographer Robert Doisneau worked for Vogue from 1949 until 1965, illustrating a postwar France filled with a renewed zest for life. His little-known images of haute couture featured models like Brigitte Bardot and Bettina, who he photographed in the studio and out on the streets. He chronicled the members of the café society in their stately homes and at glamorous costume galas, dancing the night away. Best known for his humanist approach, he masterfully captured scenes from everyday life — from the grace of a wedding procession over a footbridge to the petulance of a child impatient for cake. Doisneau’s photographs captured the spirit of the era and featured celebrities like Karen Blixen, Picasso, Colette, and Jean Cocteau, as well as jazz musicians, movie stars, and humble craftsmen at work. Legendary Vogue editor in chief Edmonde Charles-Roux’s personal homage to the photographer — who was her friend and colleague — offers intimate insight into the man behind the camera, as complex and beautiful as the people and places he immortalized.

Відоме повернення основоположної фотокниги Роберта Франка The Americans до каталогу Aperture — одного з найважливіших фотороботів, коли-небудь створених.

За майже сім десятиліть після публікації у Франції в 1958 році та в Сполучених Штатах у 1959 році «Американці» Роберта Франка стали одним із найвпливовіших і довготривалих творів американської фотографії. За допомогою вісімдесяти трьох фотографій, зроблених по всій країні, Френк представив Америку, яка раніше була невизнаною — зіткнувши її народ із підчеревищем расової нерівності, корупції та несправедливості, а також сувору реальність американської мрії. Погляд Франка — водночас приголомшливий і чіпкий — пройнятий людяністю й ліризмом, малює гострий і незрівнянний портрет нації на переломі історії.

Це видання «Американці» є урочистим поверненням культової назви до каталогу Aperture понад півстоліття після публікації видання Aperture та Музею сучасного мистецтва в 1968 році. Представлене до сторіччя народження Френка та на великій виставці в Музеї сучасного мистецтва, воно було створено за допомогою найкращого тритонового друку з видання 2008 року, у кожному кроці якого Френк брав особисту участь. дизайн і виробництво.

Точне бачення, виразний стиль і поетична проникливість Френка змінили хід фотографії ХХ століття та вплинули на наступні покоління фотографів, у тому числі Лі Фрідлендера, Нан Голдін, Денні Ліона, Джоела Меєровіца, Еда Руша та Гаррі Віногранда. Зараз вихваляють як одну з найбільш новаторських фотокниг усіх часів, The Americans залишаються такими ж потужними та провокативними, якими вони були після публікації, і продовжують резонувати з аудиторією сьогодні.

Про авторів:

Роберт Франк (народився в Цюріху, 1924; помер у Новій Шотландії, 2019) був швейцарським американським фотографом і документалістом. Він найбільш відомий своєю основоположною книгою «Американці», вперше опублікованій у 1958 році, яка породила виразну нову форму мистецтва у фотокнизі, та його експериментальним фільмом «Витягни мою ромашку», знятим у 1959 році. Серед інших його важливих проектів — книги «Лінії моєї руки» (1972) та «Чорне, біле та речі» (1954), а також фільми «Півень» Блюз (1972) і Я і мій брат (1968).

Джек Керуак (народився в Лоуелл, штат Массачусетс, 1922; помер у Санкт-Петербурзі, Флорида, 1969) був американським прозаїком, письменником, поетом і художником, найбільш відомим своїм романом «На дорозі». Він був одним із піонерів біт-покоління 1950-х років.

A revised edition of this collection of Saul Leiter’s distinctive work, featuring twelve new photographs.
A new edition of this collection of Saul Leiter's distinctive work, featuring twelve new photographs.

Saul Leiter was one of those photographers who sought neither fame nor commercial success, despite his talent for imagemaking.

Born in Pittsburgh, he spent his entire adult life in New York City's East Village, in an intensely creative environment where ideas from Europe and America came together and intermingled. There he encountered Rothko and the Abstract Expressionists, and discovered street photography and the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. His mastery of colour is displayed in unconventional cityscapes in which reflections, transparency, complex framing and mirroring effects are married to a very personal printing style, creating a unique kind of urban view.

About the Author:

Max Kozloff is an American art historian, art critic of modern art and photographer. He has been art editor at The Nation and Executive Editor of Artforum.

Глибший огляд усієї творчості однієї з видатних постатей повоєнної фотографії

Сол Лейтер (1923–2013) був піонером живописного підходу до кольорової фотографії в 1940-х роках і створював обкладинки для модних журналів, таких як Esquire та Harper’s Bazaar, перш ніж зник з-під уваги публіки в 1980-х роках. Публікація в 2006 році його першої колекції Early Color надихнула на палке «перевідкриття», яке з того часу призвело до всесвітніх виставок та виходу документального фільму «Без великого поспіху: 13 уроків життя з Солом Лейтером» (2013). Ця колекція розкриває секрети його привабливості, від майстерних кольорів та композицій до ліризму та життєвої філософії.

Понад 200 робіт, включаючи ранні вуличні фотографії, зображення для реклами, оголені тіла та картини, охоплюють кар'єру Лейтера з 1940-х років і далі, супроводжуючись цитатами художника, що виражають його унікальний світогляд.

Зміст:

Галерея • Художник у Сола Лейтера, Маргіт Ерб • The New York Nabi, Полін Вермаре Фотографії, що підкрадаються ззаду та лоскочуть ліве вухо, Мотоюкі Шибата • Джерела цитат Сола Лейтера • Хронологія Сола Лейтера

Про авторів:

Сол Лейтер народився в 1923 році в Піттсбурзі. Він був піонером малярського підходу до кольорової фотографії в 1940-х роках і створював обкладинки для модних журналів, таких як Esquire та Harper’s Bazaar, перш ніж значною мірою зник з-під уваги публіки в 1980-х роках. Публікація в 2006 році його першої колекції Early Color надихнула на палке «перевідкриття», яке з того часу призвело до світових виставок та виходу документального фільму In No Great Hurst: 13 Lessons in Life with Sola Leiter (2013). Він помер у Нью-Йорку у 2013 році.
Маргіт Ерб — засновниця та директорка Фонду Сола Лейтера, який займається збереженням мистецтва та спадщини Лейтера.
Полін Вермаре — директорка з питань культури Magnum Photos.
Мотоюкі Шибата — дослідниця та перекладачка американської літератури.

An homage to Africa's people and wildlife

Sebastião Salgado is one the most respected photojournalists working today, his reputation forged by decades of dedication and powerful black-and-white images of dispossessed and distressed people taken in places where most wouldn’t dare to go. Although he has photographed throughout South America and around the globe, his work most heavily concentrates on Africa, where he has shot more than 40 reportage works over a period of 30 years. From the Dinka tribes in Sudan and the Himba in Namibia to gorillas and volcanoes in the lakes region to displaced peoples throughout the continent, Salgado shows us all facets of African life today. Whether he’s documenting refugees or vast landscapes, Salgado knows exactly how to grab the essence of a moment so that when one sees his images one is involuntarily drawn into them. His images artfully teach us the disastrous effects of war, poverty, disease, and hostile climatic conditions.

This book brings together Salgado’s photos of Africa in three parts. The first concentrates on the southern part of the continent (Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia), the second on the Great Lakes region (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya), and the third on the Sub-Saharan region (Burkina Faso, Mali, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Ethiopia). Texts are provided by renowned Mozambique novelist Mia Couto, who describes how today’s Africa reflects the effects of colonization as well as the consequences of economic, social, and environmental crises.

This stunning book is not only a sweeping document of Africa but an homage to the continent’s history, people, and natural phenomena.

In Serra Pelada with Sebastião Salgado. Haunting black-and-white images of the Brazilian gold rush

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.

"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 colour 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. Colour 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
About the Author:

MEGAMUNDEN is a UK-based illustrator who has created illustrations for advertising, fashion, product design and publishing. He is a Senior Designer at design agency ILoveDust.

Diana McMahon-Collis is a tarot consultant and co-founder of the Tarot Association of the British Isles. She has written for numerous magazines and websites.

The photographer:

Sebastião Salgado 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 created Amazonas images, which exclusively handles his work. Salgado’s photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Other Americas (1986), Sahel, L'Homme en détresse (1986), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000) and Africa (2007).

The editor and author:

Lélia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s she moved on to conceiving and designing photography books and organizing exhibitions, numerous of them on Sebastião Salgado. Since 1994 Lélia Wanick Salgado has been the director of Amazonas images.