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The mighty giants of our program tower at 50 to 70 cm. (19.7 to 27.6 in.)

Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia, Art Edition No. 301–400 ‘The Paraná connecting the Rio Negro with the Cuyuní River’

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For six years Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there—this irreplaceable treasure of humanity in which the immense power of nature is felt like nowhere else on earth.

Art Edition (No. 301–400), with the print The Paraná connecting the Rio Negro with the Cuyuní River, state of Amazonas (2019), signed by Sebastião Salgado, with a bookstand designed by Renzo Piano for the Amazônia project
Edition of 100Gelatin silver print on Ilford FB warmtone paper, 51.3 x 34 cm on 60 x 50 cm paper; hardcover volume, 70 x 50.5 cm, 24.9 kg, 472 pages; caption book, 25.5 x 35 cm, 32 pages; bookstand made from mild steel with powder coated painting and rubber adjustable feet, 90 x 38.5 x 113.5 cm, 46 kg
Sumo
The mighty giants of our program tower at 50 to 70 cm. (19.7 to 27.6 in.)
Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia, Art Edition No. 301–400 ‘The Paraná connecting the Rio Negro with the Cuyuní River’

Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia, Art Edition No. 301–400 ‘The Paraná connecting the Rio Negro with the Cuyuní River’

8500

Endangered Paradise

Sebastião Salgado on the traces of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest

Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there—an irreplaceable treasure of humanity.

In the book’s foreword Salgado writes: “For me, it is the last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power of nature can be felt as nowhere else on earth. Here is a forest stretching to infinity that contains one-tenth of all living plant and animal species, the world’s largest single natural laboratory.” This connection to nature is echoed in Renzo Piano's bookstand design, of which he says it “is the simplest way to have the book in levitation. You do not even see the bookstand, you just see the book held in the air firmly. The open pages look like an albatros while flying.” Made from mild steel with powder coated painting, threaded central rods and rubber adjustable feet, the lectern was designed for the Amazônia project.

Salgado visited a dozen indigenous tribes that exist in tiny communities scattered across the largest tropical rainforest in the world. He documented the daily life of the Yanomami, the Asháninka, the Yawanawá, the Suruwahá, the Zo’é, the Kuikuro, the Waurá, the Kamayurá, the Korubo, the Marubo, the Awá, and the Macuxi—their warm family bonds, their hunting and fishing, the manner in which they prepare and share meals, their marvelous talent for painting their faces and bodies, the significance of their shamans, and their dances and rituals.

Sebastião Salgado has dedicated this book to the indigenous peoples of Brazil’s Amazon region: “My wish, with all my heart, with all my energy, with all the passion I possess, is that in 50 years’ time this book will not resemble a record of a lost world. Amazônia must live on.”

INSTITUTO TERRA
Founded in 1998 at Aimorés in the state of Minas Gerais, Instituto Terra is the culmination of Lélia Wanick Salgado and Sebastião Salgado’s lifelong activism and work as cultural documentarians. Through a scientific program of planting and raising saplings, the organization has performed a miraculous reforestation of the once infertile region and furthered the Salgados’ mission of reversing the damage done to our planet. TASCHEN is proud to reach carbon zero status through our continued partnership.

This SUMO-sized Art Edition (No. 301–400), designed by Lélia Wanick Salgado and signed by Sebastião Salgado, is presented with a clothbound companion volume, the signed print The Paraná connecting the Rio Negro with the Cuyuní River, state of Amazonas (2019), and a bookstand designed by Renzo Piano.

Also available in three other Art Editions of 100 copies each and in a signed Collector’s Edition of 2,000 copies (No. 401–2,400)
The photographer and author

Sebastião Salgado 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 is today their studio, and 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).

The editor

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. Amazônia, Art Edition No. 301–400 ‘The Paraná connecting the Rio Negro with the Cuyuní River’
Edition of 100Gelatin silver print on Ilford FB warmtone paper, 51.3 x 34 cm on 60 x 50 cm paper; hardcover volume, 70 x 50.5 cm, 24.9 kg, 472 pages; caption book, 25.5 x 35 cm, 32 pages; bookstand made from mild steel with powder coated painting and rubber adjustable feet, 90 x 38.5 x 113.5 cm, 46 kg

ISBN 978-3-8365-8632-0

Edition: English
The picture frame seen here is for display purposes only; the print is sold unframed.
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