Photographer of the week 05: Salgado
Sebastiao Salgado
Brazilian, born 1944
After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs. He chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched to photography in 1973, working initially on news assignments before veering more towards documentary-type work. Salgado initially worked with the Paris based agency Gamma, but in 1979 he joined the international cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos. He left Magnum in 1994 and formed his own agency, Amazonas Images, in Paris to represent his work. He is particularly noted for his documentary photography of workers in less developed nations. Longtime gallery director Hal Gould considers Salgado to be the most important photographer of the early 21st century, and gave him his first show in the United States.
http://photography-now.net/sebastiao_salgado/portfolio1.html
Nil Santana on Photographer of the week 12: ParkHarrison
12:49 pm, 11.08.11
These are wonderful and carefully crafted images. There are some sort of mystical quality to them, fantasy, and surrealism. It is also interesting how they move the viewer into the ‘discomfort’ zone (like Sara Beth mentioned). I think that’s exactly what they propose, a confrontation—aesthetically, formally, emotionally.
Nil Santana on Photographer of the week 05: Salgado
8:26 pm, 09.26.11
He is one of my favorite photographers. I have a few of his books that I keep in my office, ask me for “Workers.”
Here’s a link to more of his work: http://photography-now.net/sebastiao_salgado/portfolio1.html
Nil Santana on Photographer of the week: 01- Talbot
2:07 pm, 08.31.11
Everyone, please leave comment here (on the post) rather than on the page. Thank you!
Nil Santana on Photographer of the week 09: Leibovitz
12:52 pm, 11.08.11
If you like Recuenco’s work, you’ve got love her images as well. She’s simply wonderful. But don’t forget that there are many hours of retouching and image adjustments in most of her work. I still love them.