Des oiseaux
Sebastião Salgado
Atelier EXB
English
Text by Erik Orsenna
Interview with Sebastião Salgado
Hardcover
112 pages
205 × 260 mm
2024
ISBN 9782365114196
For this sixteenth title in the Des oiseaux collection, the great Brazilian photographer has plunged into his impressive archives to extract a selection of exceptional images celebrating a world populated exclusively by albatrosses, eagles, parrots, gannets, and other rare species. For over thirty years, Sebastião Salgado has been photographing, on land and at sea, in the most remote regions of the world, from the Amazon, Asia, and Africa to the icy spaces of Antarctica. More than half of the photographs are previously unpublished, and the book is a veritable ode to the beauty of our planet.
To accompany this visual corpus, a text by Erik Orsenna evokes our close ties with the world of birds, while an interview between Sebastião Salgado and Philippe Séclier, co-director of the Des oiseaux collection, bears witness to the photographer’s special relationship with the animal kingdom.
(Source: https://exb.fr/en/catalogue/654-des-oiseaux-sebastiao-salgado.html)
About the Artist
Sebastião Salgado was born in Brazil in 1944 and began his career as a photographer in Paris in 1973. He worked with various agencies until 1994, when he founded “Amazonas images”, an organization entirely dedicated to his work, with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado. Thereafter, he began various long-term projects that have led to major exhibitions and publications conceived by Lélia, including “Workers” (1993), “Exodus” (2000), “Genesis” (2013), and “Amazônia” (2021). In 1998, the couple founded the Instituto Terra, promoting reforestation and environmental education in the valley of the Rio Doce, a river traversing the states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo. Today, thanks to the Instituto Terra, a forest of widely varied endemic flora and fauna is to be found there.
(Source: https://exb.fr/en/authors?name=sebastiao-salgado-&id=423)
About the Publisher
Atelier EXB publishes works that address new forms of photography, contemporary art, and sciences. Founded in 2002 by Xavier Barral and taken over in 2020 by the five members of the team (Jordan Alves, Nathalie Chapuis, Yseult Chehata, Charlotte Debiolles, and Perrine Somma), the publishing house conceives each book with great attention to both content and form. To question the forms of photography, to bring to light artistic voices, to approach the major questions that innervate our contemporary societies through the image: the Atelier EXB is at the same time a space of creation, curiosity, and opening on the world.
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