An uncertain graceFrom a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastião Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart. |
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User Review - SeriousGrace - LibraryThingSebastiao Salgado is a fascinating artist. His photographs are works of art. And yet. Yet, there is so much humanity and culture within each frame that they move beyond artistic interpretation into a ... Read full review
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis lovely yet disturbing book of black-and-white photographs takes viewers from a Brazilian gold mine, where men struggle with bags of dirt, to western Africa, where starving people haunt the desert ... Read full review
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| Title | An uncertain grace |
| Authors | Sebastião Salgado, Eduardo H. Galeano, Fred Ritchin, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| Editor | Eduardo H. Galeano |
| Photographs by | Sebastião Salgado |
| Contributors | Eduardo H. Galeano, Fred Ritchin |
| Edition | reissue, illustrated |
| Publisher | Aperture Foundation, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Dec 3, 2009 |
| Length | 155 pages |
| Subjects | › › Documentary photography Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General Photography / General Photography / Individual Photographer Photography / Individual Photographers / General Photography / Photoessays & Documentaries Photography, Artistic Photography, Artistic - Exhibitions Photography, Artistic/ Exhibitions Salgado, Sebasti~ao - Exhibitions |
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