Sebastiao Salgado. Genesi. 45th Ed.
Published on 15. March 2026
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-3-7544-0336-5 (ISBN)
Description
Sebastiao 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."
Reviews / Votes
"A true book for the ages." * TIME * "GENESIS honors its biblical antecedent... there could be no more powerful reminder of all that we stand to lose." * The New York Times *More details
Series
Language
Italian
Place of publication
Cologne
Germany
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-7544-0336-5 (9783754403365)
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Persons
Lelia 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 Sebastiao Salgado's photography books and all of the exhibitions of his work.
Sebastiao 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 Lelia 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 detresse (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 Amazonia (2021).
Sebastiao 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 Lelia 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 detresse (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 Amazonia (2021).