id: 159291 accession number: 1995.83 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.83 updated: 2023-03-15 15:46:24.712000 Workers: Gold Serra Pelada, State of Parà, Brazil, 1986, printed 1995. Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian, 1944-). Gelatin silver print; image: 30 x 44.2 cm (11 13/16 x 17 3/8 in.); paper: 39.8 x 50.2 cm (15 11/16 x 19 3/4 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Julius L. Greenfield Photography Acquisition Fund 1995.83 © Sebastiào Salgado title: Gold Serra Pelada, State of Parà, Brazil title in original language: series: Workers series in original language: creation date: 1986, printed 1995 creation date earliest: 1986 creation date latest: 1986 current location: creditline: The Julius L. Greenfield Photography Acquisition Fund copyright: © Sebastiào Salgado --- culture: Brazil, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - Brazilian type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian, 1944-) - artist Sebastião Salgado Brazilian, 1944- One of the most important figures in contemporary documentary photography, Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was born and raised in the provincial town of Aimores, Minas Gerais, and educated in economics at São Paulo University. He bought his first camera, a Pentax, in 1970 while completing his doctorate in agricultural economy at the Sorbonne in Paris. One year later, while working for the International Coffee Organization, Salgado turned seriously to social photography. Throughout his career he has maintained an allegiance to the proletariat and a fundamental hope for humanity. Salgado's epic photographs, often centered on the struggles of people laboring in traditional and fast-disappearing industrial societies, typify the sort of heroic reportage that emerged between the two world wars. His most well-known subjects include the famine in Nigeria and Ethiopia (1973-74), the struggle for independence in Angola (1975-76), the peasant movement in Brazil (1980), and a series on refugees (1993-94). He has also completed other projects in Australia, Central America, and South America. Salgado has been affiliated with most of the major news agencies, including sygma (1974), gamma (1975-79), and magnum (1979), and has received numerous awards, among them the W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanitarian Photography from the French Ministry of Culture (1982), the World Press Photo Award, Holland (1985), the Photojournalist of the Year Award from the International Center of Photography, New York (1986, 1988), the Oscar Barnack Award (1985, 1992), and the Paris-Match Gold Award (1993). Several of his books, Sahel: L'Homme en Détresse (Sahel: Man in Distress, 1986), An Uncertain Grace (1990), and Workers (1993), have also been honored. His other publications include Other Americas (1986), Sahel: El Fin del Camino (Sahel: The End of the Road, 1988), Les Cheminots (The Railwaymen, 1989), The Best Photos/As Melhores Fotos (1992), and Photopoche (1993). Salgado lives in Paris. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 30 x 44.2 cm (11 13/16 x 17 3/8 in.); Paper: 39.8 x 50.2 cm (15 11/16 x 19 3/4 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "S. Salgado [signed] / Brasil-1986" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art." --- PROVENANCE (Peter Fetterman Photographic Works of Art, Santa Monica, CA) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 4, 1995 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Perhaps more than those of any other living photographer, Sebastião Salgado's photographs of the world's poor make a compassionate statement on the human condition. In his images, the artist chronicles the large-scale use of manual labor in pre-industrial Third World countries. Here, loaded down with bags of earth and mud, over 50,000 men are reduced to the size of ants as they climb up and down the walls of gigantic, terraced pits on primitive ladders in the gold mines of Serra Pelada. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 313 url: --- IMAGES