Sebasti o Salgado. Genesis

by L lia Wanick Salgado (Editor), Sebasti o Salgado (Photographer)

Overview

Sebastião Salgado’s haunting black—and—white photographs from the GENESIS project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of modern society and development. Salgado calls GENESIS “my love letter to the planet.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783836594011
Publisher:	TASCHEN
Publication date:	10/17/2022
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Lélia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s, she began to conceive and design the majority of Sebastião Salgado’s photography books and all of the exhibitions of his work. 

Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) 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 Wanick Salgado created Amazonas Images which exclusively handles his work. Salgado’s photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Sahel. L’Homme en détresse (1986), Other Americas (1986), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), The Scent of a Dream (2015), Kuwait. A Desert on Fire (2016), Gold (2019) and Amazônia (2021).

Editorial Reviews

GENESIS will further cement Salgado’s reputation as one if the most significant photographers of his age.

London The Daily Telegraph

GENESIS... a biblical title that suits the majesty of his subjects and offers the work as a beautifully articulated prayer for preservation and respect.

Los Angeles The Los Angeles Times

A true book for the ages.

New York TIME

GENESIS honors its biblical antecedent… there could be no more powerful reminder of all that we stand to lose.

New York The New York Times

...a tribute to the diversity of planet earth.

New York The Wall Street Journal

Salgado delivers another masterpiece.

London The Independent

A true book for the ages.

TIME

GENESIS... a biblical title that suits the majesty of his subjects and offers the work as a beautifully articulated prayer for preservation and respect.

The Los Angeles Times

GENESIS honors its biblical antecedent… there could be no more powerful reminder of all that we stand to lose.

The New York Times

GENESIS will further cement Salgado’s reputation as one if the most significant photographers of his age.

The Daily Telegraph

Salgado delivers another masterpiece.

The Independent

...a tribute to the diversity of planet earth.

The Wall Street Journal