Sebastião Salgado

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Sebastião Salgado (2016)

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, 1944 in Aimorés , Minas Gerais state ) is a Brazilian photographer , photo reporter and environmental activist. Salgado is one of the socially committed photographers in the tradition of social documentary photography . In 2019 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade , making him only the second visual artist to receive this prestigious award.

Life

Salgado grew up on his parents' fazenda . In 1963, Sebastião Salgado went to the University of São Paulo and studied economics until 1967 ( MA ). In the same year he married the pianist Lélia Deluiz Wanick . They were involved in the left movement against the military dictatorship and were friends with acquaintances of the student leader and revolutionary Carlos Marighella . After emigrating to Paris in August 1969, he set out to do an economics dissertation, while his wife began studying architecture at the Paris Art School .

From 1971 Salgado worked as an administrative clerk for the International Coffee Organization (ICO) in London. On his work trips to Africa , often together on behalf of the World Bank , he took his first photos with his wife's Leica . He was so enthusiastic about photography that he started his own photojournalist in 1973 and moved back to Paris.

From 1974 he worked for the photo agency Sygma. For a few months he toured Portugal , Angola and Mozambique . Then he moved to the Gamma photo agency in 1975 and worked on many photo reports, mostly about Africa, Europe and Latin America .

Salgado was accepted into the prestigious Magnum Photos agency in 1979 . He happened to be present when John Hinckley, Jr. committed an assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981 . Salgado's photos of the attack brought him money for his projects.

In self-selected long-term projects around the world, Salgado has been documenting the lives of people above all at the lower end of society, especially those from the so-called Third World, over the years using black and white photographs . After years, extensive illustrated books and impressive traveling exhibitions are created. For example, in the 1980s Salgado produced two photo volumes for the aid organization Doctors Without Borders, portraying the starving population in the Sahel zone .

Sebastião Salgado (left) presents the Brazilian President Lula da Silva with an illustrated book (2006).

His photo report from 1986 about voluntarily hard-working gold miners in the Brazilian gold mine Serra Pelada , whose working conditions seem medieval, has become famous . In April 1991, he photographed the oil wells set on fire by Saddam Hussein's troops in Kuwait during the second Gulf War for the New York Times Magazine and the subsequent extinguishing work. For this work Salgado later received the Oskar Barnack Award from the World Press Photo Foundation . In 1992 Salgado was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1994 he left Magnum Photos and is now marketing his photos through his agency Amazonas Images . So far he has mostly photographed with Leica cameras, but has now switched to Canon cameras.

From 2004 to 2013 Salgado worked on the Genesis project , documenting untouched landscapes and their flora and fauna. After nine years of work on this project, the Natural History Museum in London showed a selection of 250 photos in 2013 and published a large-format illustrated book designed by his wife.

On April 13, 2016, Salgado was elected to succeed Lucien Clergue in the Académie des Beaux-Arts . In 2019 he was elected as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

He and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick have two children, Juliano (* 1974) and Rodrigo (* 1981), who was born with Down's syndrome . His wife publishes almost all of his books and designs most of the exhibitions. You live in Paris.

social commitment

Salgado is fighting against deforestation . He had two and a half million rainforest trees planted on his family's Bulcão Farm in Brazil, which helped the local climate and water balance to recover from the previous desertification . He donated the area to the Brazilian state as a national park . Salgado and his wife founded the Instituto Terra   , which is committed to the reforestation of cleared forests and nature conservation. Salgado also supports the campaign of the human rights organization Survival International to protect the Awá Indians in Brazil, who are threatened by illegal logging on their territory.

He has received international criticism for his cooperation with the Brazilian mining company Vale as a sponsor of its Genesis traveling exhibition. Salgado defended the sponsorship in 2015 and told Época about the Bento Rodrigues dam breach : “We need these companies [like Vale] in the society in which we live. I'm pretty sure my car was made from ore that came from this valley [on the Rio Doce ]. ”In 2019, Salgado said at his exhibition at Fotografiska that he has had no further relationship with Vale since the last sponsorship . The taz also criticized his collaboration with Illy as “just a PR disguised as art” for the espresso maker.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Sebastião Salgado: Genesis. Natural History Museum , Waterhouse Gallery, London, April 11th - September 8th 2013.
  • Sebastião Salgado - Genesis. C / O Berlin , Berlin, April 18 - August 16, 2015.

Prices (selection)

Works

  • Workers. On the archeology of the industrial age. Illustrated book. From the American by Waltraud Götting, Verlag Zweiausendeins , Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 978-3-86150-027-8 .
  • Migrants . Verlag Zweausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2000, illustrated book.
  • Children of Migration . Verlag Zweausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2000, illustrated book.
  • Sebastião Salgado, Constantin von Barloewen : The memory of the world. Conversation. In: Lettre International , Edition 50, Fall 2000, pp. 46–50.
  • The End of Polio . Documentation of the UNICEF campaign to combat polio.
  • Photo Pocket. Edition Braus published by Wachter Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89904-238-2 .
  • Africa . Taschen Verlag , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8228-5621-5 , illustrated book.
  • Genesis. Trade Edition. Taschen Verlag , Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8365-4259-3 , illustrated book.
  • The scent of dreams - a journey into the world of coffee . Knesebeck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86873-884-1 .
  • Sebastião Salgado. Kuwait. A desert on fire. Taschen, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8365-6125-9 .
  • With Isabelle Francq: My country, our earth. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-312-01152-0 , (autobiography).
    • French original edition: De ma terre à la Terre. Presses De La Renaissance, Paris 2013.

literature

Movies

Web links

Commons : Sebastião Salgado  - collection of images, videos and audio files

photos

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carola Padtberg: "The horror aestheticized" 'In: Der Spiegel , July 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ Susanne Mayer : We are only animals too. In: Die Zeit , April 11, 2013, No. 14, (interview).
  3. ^ Ana Clara GS: Sebastião Salgado • Biografia. In: TrabalhosFeitos , March 21, 2014 (Brazilian Portuguese, only beginning of article).
  4. ↑ Ale Bueno: Um olhar sobre Sebastião Salgado - Part I. In: revistamixtape , (Brazilian Portuguese), part 2.
  5. ^ Sofia Cavedon: Título de Cidadão Emérito de Porto Alegre para Sebastião Salgado. In: sofiasubsidios.blogspot.co.at , January 26, 2014, laudation on the award of honorary citizenship of Porto Alegre with biographical information, (Brazilian Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Sebastiao Salgado: My country, our earth. Munich 2019. p. 30.
  7. ↑ Sebastiao Salgado: My country, our earth. Munich 2019. p. 31. “In the end I never gave it up, even though I tried to be sensible,” writes Salgado (p. 37).
  8. ↑ Sebastiao Salgado: My country, our earth. Munich 2019. p. 37.
  9. ^ Sebastião Salgado: Sahel: the end of the road . Berkeley, CA 2004, ISBN 978-0-520-24170-1 .
  10. ^ Parvati Nair: A Different Light: the Photography of Sebastiao Salgado . Durham NC 2012, ISBN 978-0-8223-5031-6 .
  11. ^ Sebastião Salgado: When the Oil Fields Burned. In: New York Times , April 8, 2016.
  12. ↑ Video interview: Photographer Sebastião Salgado presents his epic new monograph Kuwait: A Desert on Fire. In: Taschen Verlag  / YouTube , November 24, 2016, 2:46 min.
  13. ↑ 1992 Photo Contest, Oskar Barnack Award, Stories, Individual awards. In: World Press Photo Foundation , accessed October 20, 2019.
  14. ↑ Amazon Images
  15. ^ Christof Haverkamp: Sebastiao Salgado - a portrait worth seeing. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , November 1, 2014, accessed on October 20, 2019.
  16. ↑ Sebastiaõ Salgado, Isabelle Francq: My country, our earth: autobiography . Nagel & Kimche, 2019, ISBN 978-3-312-01153-7 .
  17. ^ Phil Coomes: Sebastiao Salgado's Genesis project. In: BBC , November 3, 2011 (English, with photo series).
  18. ↑ a b Exhibition: Sebastião Salgado: Genesis. ( Memento from August 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Natural History Museum , 2013.
  19. ↑ Video: Genesis by Sebastião Salgado - Taschen Verlag. In: Redaktion42  / YouTube , May 16, 2013, 7 min.
  20. ↑ Press release: Sebastião Salgado, Bruno Barbey et Jean Gaumy élus à l'Académie des beaux-arts. In: Académie des Beaux-Arts , April 13, 2016, (PDF; 631 kB).
  21. ↑ Newly elected members 2019. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 30, 2019 .
  22. ^ Instituto Terra. In: institutoterra.org , (English)
  23. ↑ Paul Katzenberger: We are only animals. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 14, 2013, accessed on July 3, 2013.
  24. ↑ Celebrities support the world's most threatened people. In: Survival International , accessed July 3, 2013.
  25. ^ Claire Guillot, Nicolas Bourcier, Caroline Stevan: "Genesis", le paradis controversé de Sebastião Salgado. In: Le Temps , December 6, 2013 (French).
  26. ^ Claire Guillot, Nicolas Bourcier, Caroline Stevan: Sebastiao Salgado, liaisons dangereuses. In: Le Monde , December 6, 2013 (French).
  27. ^ Gavin Haines: The natural world, photographed by Sebastião Salgado - sponsored by a corporation that's despoiling the Amazon. In: The Independent , July 17, 2013, (English).
  28. ↑ Sponsored by Vale, Sebastião Salgado's Genesis exhibition opens in London. In: Vale , November 4, 2013, (English).
  29. ↑ Alice Vincent: Brazilian nature photography exhibition sponsored by mining company. In: The Daily Telegraph , July 18, 2013, (English).
  30. ↑ Cristina Grillo: Sebastião Salgado: “Essas empresas primam pela preocupação ecológica”. In: O Globo , November 24, 2015, (Brazilian Portuguese).
  31. ↑ Sebastião Salgado hyllas och kritiseras - nu ställer han ut på Fotografiska. In: Dagens Nyheter , September 12, 2019, (Swedish), only beginning of article.
  32. ^ Henrik Brandão Jönsson: Det är oroande att Sebastião Salgado får ställa ut på Fotografiska. In: Dagens Nyheter , September 12, 2019, (Swedish), only beginning of article.
  33. ^ Brigitte Werneburg: Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: View of the simple people. In: taz , June 18, 2019.
  34. ↑ Julia Schiller: C / O Berlin | Sebastião Salgado - Genesis. In: fotografie-in.berlin , May 19, 2015, accessed on October 20, 2019.
  35. ↑ Andreas Kilb : A shimmer like polished lead. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 6, 2015.
  36. ↑ The Prize Winner 2019. In: Börsenverein , accessed on October 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Salgado, Sebastião
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salgado Júnior, Sebastião Ribeiro (full name); Salgado, Sebastião Ribeiro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian photographer and photo reporter
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Aimorés , Minas Gerais State , Brazil