Sebastiào Salgado; Lélia Wanick Salgado; Irina Bokova — Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis

Cologne, Taschen, 2013 . First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of Sebastião Salgado"s epic eight-year photographic odyssey across over thirty countries, featuring 245 striking black-and-white photographic plates. In the publisher's original cloth binding, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This volume is the first English edition of this work.This volume gathers over black-and-white photographs taken by Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado during an eight-year journey across more than 30 countries, documenting landscapes, wildlife, and communities that remain largely untouched by modern civilization, aiming to present of the authentic faces of nature and humanity.This volume is illustrated with 245 black-and-white photographs plates. Collated, complete.Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (1944-2025) was a Brazilian-born social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador with major honours including the W. Eugene Smith Grant, RPS Centenary Medal, and membership in France"s Académie des Beaux-Arts. He also co-founded the Instituto Terra with his wife to restore degraded land in Brazil.     In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with only the slightest rubbing and bumping to extremities. Dust wrapper, lovely. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, resulting in one very small closed tear to rear edge of front panel close to the tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Sebastiào Salgado. Near Fine/Near Fine.