Sahel. The End of the Road
Foreword by Orville Schell. Afterword by Eduardo Galeano. Introduction by Fred Ritchin
(Sprache: Englisch)
In 1984 Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and...
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In 1984 Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, Salgado documented the enormous suffering and the great dignity of the refugees. This early work became a template for his future photographic projects about other afflicted people around the world. Since then, Salgado has again and again sought to give visual voice to those millions of human beings who, because of military conflict, poverty, famine, overpopulation, pestilence, environmental degradation, and other forms of catastrophe, teeter on the edge of survival. Beautifully produced, with thoughtful supporting narratives by Orville Schell, Fred Ritchin, and Eduardo Galeano, this first U.S. edition brings some of Salgado's earliest and mostimportant work to an American audience for the first time. Twenty years after the photographs were taken, "Sahel: The End of the Road" is still painfully relevant. Born in Brazil in 1944, Sebastiao Salgado studied economics in Sao Paulo and Paris and worked in Brazil and England. While traveling as an economist to Africa, he began photographing the people he encountered. Working entirely in a black-and-white format, Salgado highlights the larger meaning of what is happening to his subjects with an imagery that testifies to the fundamental dignity of all humanity while simultaneously protesting its violation by war, poverty, and other injustices. 'The planet remains divided,' Salgado explains. 'The first world in a crisis of excess, the third world in a crisis of need.' This disparity between the haves and the have-nots is the subtext of almost all of Salgado's work.
Klappentext zu „Sahel. The End of the Road “
With thoughtful supporting narrative, this is a collection of some of Salgado's earliest and most important photographs of the drought-stricken region of Africa in the 1980s.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Sahel. The End of the Road “
Foreword Sahel: Man in Distress / Orville Schell Introduction Twenty Years Ago, and Later / Fred Ritchin Photographs Captions Afterword Salgado / Eduardo Galeano Biographical Note Acknowledgments
Autoren-Porträt von Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastião Salgado, geb. 1944 in Aimorés, Brasilien, studierte Wirtschaftswissenschaften und begann 1973 seine Karriere als Fotograf. Seine Fotoprojekte, für die er über hundert Länder bereiste, sind in seinen Büchern dokumentiert, darunter Other Americas, Sahel, l homme en détresse, Sahel, el fin del camino, Arbeiter: Zur Archäologie des Industriezeitalters und Migrations. Salgado erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, und seine Arbeiten wurden und werden in aller Welt ausgestellt.Eduardo Hughes Galeano, geboren 1940 in Montevideo / Uruguay, wurde mit 20 Jahren stellvertretender Chefredakteur der bekannten Zeitschrift für Kultur und Politik MARCHA in Montevideo. Zwischen 1964 und 1966 war er Direktor der EPOCHA, der Zeitschrift der 'unabhängigen Linken' von Uruguay.1973 übernahm er in Buenos Aires die Chefredaktion der Zeitschrift CRISIS und leitete sie bis zur Schließung des Verlags 1976. Ab 1976 lebte Guleano im spanischen Exil. Im Frühjahr 1985, nach der Beendigung der Militärdikatur in Uruguay, kehrte er nach Montevideo zurück. Für seine literarische Arbeit erhielt er u.a. den Preis der "Casa de las Americas" und den "American Book Award". Eduardo Hughes Galeano verstarb 2015.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sebastiao Salgado
- 2004, 160 Seiten, Maße: 28,7 x 28,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Mitarbeit: Salgado, Sebastião; Ritchin, Fred; Galeano, Eduardo; Salgado, Lelia Wanick
- Verlag: University of California Press
- ISBN-10: 0520241703
- ISBN-13: 9780520241701
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.09.2004
Sprache:
Englisch
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"While art should speak for itself, Salgado's photography is first and foremost a documentary way of bearing witness to something else. His work is both an anguished cri de coeur and, although he professes not to be religions, something of a votive offering presented in the hopes of getting the attention of a world that sometimes seems to have fallen asleep." - Orville Schell, from the Foreword"
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