“A PORTRAIT OF REFUGEES THAT TRANSCENDS WORDS”: FIRST EDITION OF SEBASTIÃO SALGADO’S MIGRATION, WITH OVER 400 PROVOCATIVE IMAGES

SALGADO, Sebastião. Migrations: Humanity in Transition. (New York): Aperture, (2000). Folio, original gray cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Caption booklet in rear pocket. $550.

First edition of Salgado’s compelling photo-documentary on displaced persons, with over 400 dramatic duotones. From the collection of noted photojournalist Peter Turnley.

“Salgado is one of the Masters of black and white of today” (Le Monde). His work “brings to the composition of photojournalism skills akin to those of the painter Caravaggio” (New York Times). His compelling photo-documentary of populations on the move, “innocent civilians” fleeing their homes to escape poverty, drought, famine, war, or to seek asylum from political oppression, is “a portrait of refugees that transcends words” (New York Times). For seven years, Salgado made photographs in 39 countries. In his words, “My hope is that, as individuals, as groups, as societies, we can pause and reflect on the human condition at the turn of the millennium. In its rawest form, individualism remains a prescription for catastrophe. We have to create a new regimen of coexistence… We cannot afford to look away.” Salgado has often used his pictures to directly ameliorate the conditions he photographs. For example, after documenting the effect of famine in the Sahel region of Africa, he donated many of his proceeds to Doctors Without Borders. “All my work is linked together like different chapters of the same story.” With caption booklet in rear pocket. See Parr & Badger II, 256. From the collection of Peter Turnley, acclaimed photojournalist for Newsweek, Life and Harper’s Magazine, who has covered “almost every important international news event of the last 15 years” (New York Times).

Fine condition.