SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO SU N DAR AM TAGOR E MADISON AVE N U E JANUARY 22–FEBRUARY 26, 2021
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Chinstrap penguins on an iceberg, between Zavodovski and Visokoi islands, South Sandwich Islands 2009, gelatin silver print, 24 x 35 inches/61 x 89 cm
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Church Gate Station, Western Railroad Line, Bombay, India 1995, gelatin silver print, 36 x 50 inches/91.4 x 127 cm
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Iceberg between Paulet Island and the South Shetland Islands in the Weddell Sea, Antarctic Peninsula 2005, gelatin silver print, 36 x 50 inches/92 x 127 cm
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Iceberg located between Bristol and Bellingshausen islands, South Sandwich Islands 2009, gelatin silver print, 24 x 35 inches/61 x 88.9 cm
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Yali man, West Papua, Indonesia 2010, gelatin silver print, 68 x 50 inches/180 x 125 cm
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Marine Iguana, Galรกpagos, Ecuador 2004, gelatin silver print, 36 x 50 inches/91.4 x 127 cm
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The Erg Ubari, a vast expanse of sand dunes, has no fresh water, but salt lakes, Libya 2009, gelatin silver print, 24 x 35 inches/61 x 88.9 cm
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Cerro Torre, part of a mountain chain in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Argentine Patagonia 2007, gelatin silver print, 24 x 35 inches/61 x 88.9 cm
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Southern Right Whale, ValdĂŠs Peninsula, Argentina 2004, gelatin silver print, 36 x 50 inches/91.4 x 127 cm
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Southern Elephant Seal Calves at Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia 2009, gelatin silver print, 24 x 35 inches/61 x 89.9 cm
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Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah and Arizona, USA 2010, gelatin silver print, 24 x 35 inches/61 x 88.9 cm
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Adansonia Grandidieri 2010, gelatin silver print, 36 x 50 inches/91.44 x 127 cm
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Baobab trees on a mushroom island in Bay of Moramba, Madagascar 2010, gelatin silver print, 24 x 35 inches/61 x 88.9 cm
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Women in the Zo’é village of Towari Ypy color their bodies with the red fruit of the urucum, Pará, Brazil 2009, gelatin silver print, 24 x 35 inches/61 x 89 cm
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Marine Iguana, Galรกpagos, Ecuador 2004, gelatin silver print, 68 x 50 inches/172.7 x 127 cm
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The garca moura, or Cocoi heron, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil 2011, gelatin silver print, 24 x 35 inches/61 x 88.9 cm
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© Nicole Toutoujni/UNICEF
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Sebastião Salgado was born in 1944 in Brazil. He lives in Paris. Having studied economics, Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in 1973 in Paris. He worked with various agencies including Magnum Photos until 1994, when he and Lélia Wanick Salgado formed Amazonas Images, created exclusively for his work. Salgado’s work has been the subject of numerous books including Other Americas (1986), Sahel: l’homme en détresse (1986), Sahel: el fin del camino (1988), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations and Portraits (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), The Scent of a Dream (2015) and Kuwait, A Desert on Fire (2016). Touring exhibitions of this work have been and continue to be presented throughout the world. In 2013, the book De ma terre à la Terre (From my land to the planet), a narrative account of his life and career was published, and in 2014, the documentary film The Salt of the Earth, directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, was released. Sebastião Salgado has been honored with numerous distinctions and photographic prizes, including, most recently, the 27th Annual Crystal Award presented by the World Economic Forum. He is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In April 2016 Salgado was elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France, for the seat previously occupied by Lucien Clergue. In July 2016, he was named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, France. Lélia Wanick Salgado and Sebastião Salgado have worked since the 1990s on the restoration of a portion of the Atlantic Forest in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. In 1998 they succeeded in turning this land into a nature reserve and created the Instituto Terra, dedicated to reforestation, conservation and environmental education.
SUNDARAM TAGORE GALLERIES We have been representing established and emerging artists from around the world since 2000. We show work that is aesthetically and intellectually rigorous, infused with humanism and art historically significant. We specialize in paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations with a strong emphasis on materiality. Our artists cross cultural and national boundaries, synthesizing Western visual language with forms, techniques and philosophies from Asia, the Subcontinent and the Middle East. We show this work alongside important work by overlooked women from the New York School. The gallery also has a robust photography program that includes some of the world’s most noted photographers.
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