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Photographer Sebastião Salgado spent six years immersed within the Brazilian Amazon as he documented the world’s largest tropical rainforest in black-and-white. From broad, aerial photographs framing the vegetation populating the panorama to honest portraits of Indigenous peoples dwelling all through the area, Salgado’s wide-ranging images are a revealing and intimate examine of the world as we speak.
Titled Amazônia, a 528-page tome from Taschen compiles these photographs, which within the absence of coloration, are attentive to naturally occurring contrasts in mild and texture. They discover the distinctive setting and cultural milieu Salgado skilled throughout his travels as he visited a number of small communities—the tribes embrace 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—to create a visible document of their traditions and methods of life. “For me, it’s the final frontier, a mysterious universe of its personal, the place the immense energy of nature might be felt as nowhere else on Earth,” the Brazilian photographer mentioned. “Here’s a forest stretching to infinity that comprises one-tenth of all dwelling plant and animal species, the world’s largest single pure laboratory.”
Pre-order a duplicate on Bookshop, and keep watch over Taschen’s website for a forthcoming artwork version that’s packaged with a signed print. You can also discover an archive of Salgado’s images capturing moments across the globe from Botswana and Mali to Guatemala and Vietnam on Artsy.
#Amazon
#black and white
#books
#Brazil
#portraits
#rainforest
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