“SALGADO’S SUBJECTS SELDOM INSPIRE ANYTHING LESS THAN AWE”

SALGADO, Sebastião. Une Certaine Grâce. (Paris): Nathan/Image, (1990). Folio, original blue cloth, original photographic dust jacket. $250.

First French edition of Salgado’s exceptional photobook, with essays in French by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin, and 103 dramatic duotone plates (many double-page).

"One of the most outstanding and versatile of contemporary photographers" (McDarrah, 433), the Brazilian-born "Salgado is almost in a class by himself." His photographs in Une Certaine Grâce "carry a sense of smoldering energy, of passion to big to be held in check by any body… [They] are immediate and physical. Their contrasts are sharp, their light hard. They are controlled: form serves content, restraining energy, dignifying death… Salgado's subjects seldom inspire anything less than awe" (New York Times). With text in French by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin. First French edition, preceded same year by 1990 edition published coincident with an exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Book fine, light edge-wear to about-fine dust jacket.