Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
Fishing in the marshes of the Gel Canal, which is filled with waters from the Nile River, Southern Sudan, from the series "Genesis," 2006

Gelatin silver print, printed later, copyright blindstamp in the margin; signed, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.

image: 14 7/8 x 20 1/8in. (37.8 x 51.1cm.)
sheet: 20 x 24in. (50.8 x 61cm.)

An Important Western Collection

Literature:

Salgado, Sebastãio Salgado: Genesis, Taschen, 2013, p. 255

"Sebastião Salgado's straightforward photographs portray individuals living in desperate economic circumstances. Because he insists on presenting his pictures in series, rather than individually, and because each work's point of view refuses to separate subject from context, Salgado achieves a difficult task. His photographs impart the dignity and integrity of his subjects without forcing their heroism or implicitly soliciting pity, as many other photographs from the Third World do. Salgado's photography communicates a subtle understanding of social and economic situations that is seldom available in other photographers' representations of similar themes."

Lisa Hostetler, ICP, New York

Other wonderful examples of Salgado's "photographic homage to the world in its natural state," as he describes it, can be found elsewhere in this sale.

Sebastião Salgado (born 1944) Fishing in the marshes of the Gel Canal, which is filled with waters from the Nile River, Southern Sudan, from the series "Genesis," 2006

Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
Fishing in the marshes of the Gel Canal, which is filled with waters from the Nile River, Southern Sudan, from the series "Genesis," 2006