Sebastião Salgado. Genesis
4500Edizione: IngleseDisponibilità: DisponibileEdizione da collezione (n. 501-3.000), numerata e firmata da Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS
4500Salgado’s Masterpiece: GENESIS – Earth Eternal
The companion volume to the world’s best attended photo show
GENESIS is Sebastião Salgado’s love letter to the planet. It is the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts, and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society—the land and life of a still pristine planet. The GENESIS project, along with the Salgados’ Instituto Terra, is dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing the damage done to it, and preserving it for the future.
On over 30 trips—by foot, light aircraft, boats, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme temperatures and in sometimes dangerous conditions—Salgado has created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in such intense beauty it takes our breath away. The reach is truly global. Through Salgado’s lens, one discovers the animal species and volcanoes of the Galápagos; the penguins, sea lions, cormorants, and whales of the South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; and African lions, leopards, and elephants. We travel over icebergs in the Antarctic, the volcanoes of Central Africa, the ravines of the Grand Canyon, and the glaciers of Alaska. We encounter the Stone Age Korowai people of West Papua, nomadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan, Nenets and their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle, as well as the Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra.
In characteristic monochrome, Salgado’s painterly notes are perfectly tuned to these sublime scenes, capturing sweeping aerial panoramas as much as the most intricate details and textures, from a reptilian skin to the fur coat of the Nenet people of northern Siberia. The exquisitely reproduced images are arranged not by theme but rather conceived as a journey around the globe, immersing them in Salgado’s vision of the Earth’s mesmerizing scale, order, and beauty.
This two-volume SUMO-size edition is designed and edited by Lélia Wanick Salgado and numbered and signed by Sebastião Salgado. Quarter-leather bound, it is presented with a bookstand in cherry wood veneer designed by Tadao Ando and a clothbound caption book explaining each stunning shot.
Collector’s Edition of 2,500 copies (No. 501–3,000), numbered and signed by Sebastião Salgado.
Also available in five Art Editions with prints, each limited to 100 copies (No. 1–500).
Il designer del leggio
Tadao Ando, nato nel 1941, è uno degli architetti contemporanei più famosi al mondo. Ex boxer, decise di intraprendere gli studi di architettura due anni dopo essersi diplomato. È l’unico architetto ad aver vinto tutti i quattro premi più prestigiosi del settore: Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale e Kyoto Prize. Attualmente lavora a Osaka, sua città natale.
Il fotografo
Sebastião Salgado ha iniziato la sua carriera come fotografo professionista a Parigi nel 1973, lavorando in seguito con le agenzie fotografiche Sygma, Gamma e Magnum. Nel 1994, insieme alla moglie Lélia, ha fondato Amazonas Images, agenzia che gestisce in esclusiva la sua opera. I suoi progetti fotografici sono stati esposti in molte mostre e pubblicati in numerosi libri, tra cui Other Americas (1986), Sahel: L’Homme en détresse (1986), Terra (1997), In Cammino (2000), Ritratti, (2000), Africa (2007), Genesi (2013), Exodus (2016), Kuwait (2016), Gold (2019) e Amazônia (2021).
L'editore
Lélia Wanick Salgado ha studiato architettura e progettazione urbana a Parigi. Il suo interesse per la fotografia risale al 1970. Negli anni ’80 ha iniziato a ideare e progettare libri di fotografia e a organizzare mostre, molte delle quali dedicate a Sebastião Salgado.
Sebastião Salgado. Genesis
Edition of 2,500Hardcover, two vols. with book stand, 46.8 x 70 cm, 56 kg, 704 pagineISBN 978-3-8365-4372-9
Edizione: Inglese5