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| Author: | Sebastiao Salgado, Lélia Wanick Salgado |
| Category: | Books, Photography, Art |
| Language: | English and Czech |
| Translation: | Derek Paton, Marzia Paton |
| Page count: | 124 |
| Binding: | Hbk |
| ISBN: | 80-86217-86-8 |
| EAN: | 9788086217864 |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Issue number: | 1 |
| Price: | 20 EUR |
| Size: | 22,5 x 21cm |
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Sebastião Salgado’s Workers is an elegy to the manual laborers of the industrial age in the fields of agriculture, mining, oil, construction, food and industry. Salgado’s powerful images of tea pickers in Rwanda, dam builders in India, steelworkers in France and the Ukraine, sugarcane harvesters in Brazil, assembly-line workers in Russia and China, sulfur miners in Indonesia and others pay moving tribute to the working people who, in Salgado’s portrayal, have maintained their dignity under the harshest of conditions. Made over a period of six years, the 250 photographs comprising the series were first exhibited in 1993; for this publication, the project’s original curator, Lelia Wanick Salgado, has narrowed the selection down to 81 photographs. A classic photobook, Workers offers an affirmation of the enduring spirit of working women and men.
Introduction by Ivana Stankova
Czech Photography of the 20th Century, published simultaneously in Czech and English versions, is the first book to present the main trends, figures, and works of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century to such a large extent. Its 517 plates include not only the most important, well-known photographs and photomontages, but also works that have long been forgotten or are published for the first time. The book is arranged in seventeen chapters, supplemented with chronologies of the most important events in twentieth-century Czech photography and history.