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His images are gorgeous and beautiful as photographic objects of tone and light. Yet they often express human suffering. "What I want in my pictures is not that they'll look like art objects," he says. "They are journalist pictures. All my pictures. No exceptions." Many of his images are iconographic, his subjects vast in scope, yet each one shows Salgado's view of human individuals in a certain situation. He shares with us his view of human experience on both the grandest and the smallest scale, and he reaches our hearts by engaging his own. Salgado rose to international fame with his stark and moving photographs of famine in the Sahel (1984-85). Then he made an indelible impression on the international mind with Workers (1986-92), a documentation of manual labor in its most dramatically primitive forms around the world. And he continues to expand his vision and his scope even further today, with the massive project partly shown here, Migrations: Humanity in Transiton (1993-1999). Born in Aimores, M.G., Brazil in 1944, Salgado studied economics in both São Paulo and Paris, and worked from 1968 to 1973 as an economist in both Brazil and England. It was in the early 70s, while on a tour of Africa as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, that Salgado began photographing seriously. Major exhibitions of his work include: Sahel: L'Homme en Détresse (1986): Other Americas (1982); An Uncertain Grace (1990); and Workers (1993).
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