Workers: Archaeology of the Industrial Age Overview
More than those of any living photographer, Sebastiao Salgado's images of the world's poor stand as icons of the human condition. His transforming photographs bestow dignity on the most isolated and neglected, from refugees in the famine-stricken Sahel, to the men who swarm the gold mines of Brazil. Now Saigado goes beyond icons to bring us a photographic revolution of such epic scope that it transcends mere image making. These photographs form an archaeological perspective of the activities that have defined labour from the Iron Age through the Industrial Revolution to the present. This book is the vision of a man with a moral mission: he honours workers of the world with the empathy and drama only he can bring to a photograph, paying homage to those who do manual labour in our increasingly technological society.
Customer Reviews
Salgado is divine. He produces the most perfect images out there, in the documentary realm, and this book projects that well.
The images are spectacular, no other word than that.
Excellent printing of an amazing darkroom work.
Still, one series stands out above all - the Brazilian gold mine workers.
This is the only series where you can feel strong emotions and the judgmental eye of the photographer (and this is what I'm actually looking for in documentary photography. But it might be only me, though).
I assume the reason for that is Salgado's origin, but nevertheless, I really wanted all the series in the book to be emotional as this one.
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