Sebastião Salgado: Exodus
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It has been almost a generation since Sebastião Salgado first published Exodus but the story it tells, of fraught human movement around the globe, has changed little in 16 years. The push and pull factors may shift, the nexus of conflict relocates from Rwanda to Syria, but the people who leave their homes tell the same tale: deprivation, hardship, and glimmers of hope, plotted along a journey of great psychological, as well as physical, toil. Salgado spent six years with migrant peoples, visiting more than 35 countries to document displacement on the road, in camps, and in overcrowded city slums where new arrivals often end up. His project includes Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, the Hutu refugees of Rwanda, as well as the first “boat people” of Arabs and sub-Saharan Africans trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean ea. His images feature those who know where they are going and those who are simply in flight, relieved to be alive and uninjured enough to run. The faces he meets present dignity and compassion in the most bitter of circumstances, but also the many ravaged marks of violence, hatred, and greed. With his particular eye for detail and motion, Salgado captures the heart-stopping moments of migratory movement, as much as the mass flux. There are laden trucks, crowded boats, and camps stretched out to a clouded horizon, and then there is the small, bandaged leg; the fingerprint on a page; the interview with a border guard; the bundle and baby clutched to a mother’s breast. Insisting on the scale of the migrant phenomenon, Salgado also asserts, with characteristic humanism, the personal story within the overwhelming numbers. Against the indistinct faces of televised footage or the crowds caught beneath a newspaper headline, what we find here are portraits of individual identities, even in the abyss of a lost land, home, and, often, loved ones. At the same time, Salgado also declares the commonality of the migrant situation as a shared, global experience. He summons his viewers not simply as spectators of the refugee and exile suffering, but as actors in the social, political, economic, and environmental shifts which contribute to the migratory phenomenon. As the boats bobbing up on the Greek and Italian coastline bring migration home to Europe like no mass movement since the Second World War, Exodus cries out not only for our heightened awareness but also for responsibility and engagement. In face of the scarred bodies, the hundreds of bare feet on hot tarmac, our imperative is not to look on in compassion, but, in Salgado’s own words, to temper our behaviors in a “new regimen of coexistence.” Review: Powerful images of our times - A great price from desertcart for this compendium of stimulating (and disturbing) photographs from the great Salgado. Review: Salgado is one of the best photographers of this century - Salgado is one of the best photographers of this century. His work is insightful and demonstrates the toil there is in a very troubled world. His photographs are taken with great intelligence and sensitivity
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P**R
Powerful images of our times
A great price from Amazon for this compendium of stimulating (and disturbing) photographs from the great Salgado.
M**N
Salgado is one of the best photographers of this century
Salgado is one of the best photographers of this century. His work is insightful and demonstrates the toil there is in a very troubled world. His photographs are taken with great intelligence and sensitivity
S**N
fantastic
a must for all Salgado fans.
B**Y
Understanding "modern times": add Salgado's work to that of Primo Levi and Joseph Heller.
Understanding "modern times": add Salgado's work to that of Primo Levi and Joseph Heller.
S**I
Five Stars
Fantastic book!
P**0
Haunting and inspiring
Exodus is a re-release of Sebastiao Salgado's much praised 'Migrations' which was released almost two decades ago. Having not had the chance to look at and own this work in it's original release (hardcover editions being very expensive in good condition these days) I quickly purchased this book as soon as it were available. Like every other Salgado book I own (Genesis & Africa) it has proved to be one of the best purchases I have ever made. It is utterly sublime. Salgado documents the vast and breathtaking relocation of various peoples throughout the world, fleeing genocide, war and many other problems that have come to plague their life. The results as presented within are a dichotomy between the stark beauty and majesty of Salgado's breathtaking photography and the despair, dejection and often horror that his subjects experience throughout the collection. Salgado wants you to feel your way throughout this book, to educate you by shining light upon, and capturing their plight on 35mm. After completing this work Sebastiao Salgado found himself distraught, sick and losing all faith in humanity. Interrogating this book we can find all the answers we need to understand his frame of mind. Answers that are both beautiful and deadly, holding the ability to strip away any preconceptions, judgements and prejudice regarding famine, genocide, war and life that is so familiar yet so alien to our own. Haunting and inspiring. P.S. Throughout the collection there are several photos presented across two pages in a double page spread. Not nearly as many as Genesis, but there are some. I thought I'd pre-warn as some dislike the presentation of photos this way.
A**R
A genius
Excellent body of work - sadly disappointed by paper quality which doesn’t do the photos justice in comparison to other volumes
B**.
Missing Captions
I have two of Salgado's photo books: "Genesis" and "Exodus". In general, I believe B&W images rob something from the scene pictured. Humans see everything in colour, so a B&W image looks doctored. That aside, my main complaint is that "Exodus" does not have picture captions -- they are just bland B&W images that make no sense. Without a time and setting, the photos look staged. "Genesis" had an add-on booklet inside with picture captions.
V**O
Excelente obra, es realmente una obra de arte.
Esta obra la elegí, por ser parte de un gran fotógrafo y para completar una colección de Sebatião Salgado, es imperdible tener estos libros.
S**H
Exceptional Monochrome Photography!
Exceptional Book With Black And White Pictures - All 365 Of Them, Divided Into Four Chapters! The Pictures say it all with no captions required! The author puts all the necessary information in words in about 16 pages at the beginning of this massive tome and leaves his pictures to demonstrate the stark reality of migration and its aftermath as the harsh Truth strikes the viewer straight head on! The Pictures are an incredible study of monochrome photography and there is plenty to absorb in these pages! The paper quality is par excellence and the volume is quite heavy in weight! Sebastiao Salgado is certainly one of the greatest giants of Reportage Photography who ever lived!
P**M
Not an easy book. The artistry is simply phenomenal. Topic selected is superior.
Our comfort goes into the wind when we watch pictures and read the accompanying booklet of facts. Photographies are printed separately - the writing does not interfere with their deep effect. This is an excellent solution enabling practically unlimited comments as to the historical background, dates and personal observations by S Salgado. S Salgado's series will definitely fill our bookcases.
C**T
Incredibly powerful book
This book is a phenomenal and deeply moving photographic record of displaced people. It's both challenging and fascinating, and filled with a compassion and rage at the injustice that so many of fellow human beings suffer. Salgado is an incredible photographer and each photo here stands on its own merit as a work of art, but here it's the effect of the whole - the people, the stories, the lives upended - or lost - that really hits home.
F**O
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