Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
This used to be the large Lake Faguibine. It dried up little by little with the drought and invasion of the desert. All the men have gone, only the children, the elderly and the women remain, Mali, 1985

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

image: 13 1/2 x 20in (34.3 x 50.8cm.)
sheet: 20 x 24in. (50.8 x 61cm.)

An Important Western Collection

This starkly beautiful image by Salgado is of Lake Faguibine which was once ranked among the largest lakes in West Africa. From the time of the Sahel drought in the 1970s and 1980s, however, it has slowly dried up rendering traditional activities of fishing, agriculture and livestock rearing virtually obsolete.

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.

Neutral toned print on semi-gloss, double weight paper with margins; a beautiful print in excellent condition. Sold unframed in 20 x 24-inch mat. Please see images.

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Laura Paterson

Director, Senior Specialist, Photographs

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Ms. Paterson joined Hindman in 2022 and is a nearly 30-year veteran of the photography industry. She began her career in the Photographs Department at Christie’s in New York, and spent 20 years at the auction house becoming a Senior Specialist. Subsequently, she worked at Magnum Photos New York (a prestigious photojournalism collective founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1947) as US Cultural and Print Sales Director and Bonhams as Head of the Photographs Department. Ms. Paterson has extensive knowledge of photography from the 18th to 21st centuries, with a particular interest in works of the American West by Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams.

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Sebastião Salgado (born 1944) This used to be the large Lake Faguibine. It dried up little by little with the drought and invasion of the desert. All the men have gone, only the children, the elderly and the women remain, Mali, 1985

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Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
This used to be the large Lake Faguibine. It dried up little by little with the drought and invasion of the desert. All the men have gone, only the children, the elderly and the women remain, Mali, 1985