Migrations: Humanity in Transition
by Sebastião Salgado
Aperture, 2000, 432 pages
ISBN: 0893818917

Book description
Internationally renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado, whose book Workers changed forever the image of manual labor around the world, has now turned his attention to the staggering phenomenon of mass migration. In photographs taken over seven years and across more than thirty-five countries, Migrations documents the epic displacement of the world's people at the close of the twentieth century. Wars, natural disasters, environmental degradation, explosive population growth, and the widening gap between rich and poor have resulted in over 100 million international migrants, a number that has doubled in the span of a decade. This extraordinary level of demographic change is unparalleled in human history, and presents profound challenges to the most basic notions of nation, culture, community, and citizenship. The first pictorial survey to extensively chronicle the current global flux of humanity, Migrations follows Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, and many others. The images address suffering while revealing the profound dignity, courage, and energy of the subjects. With his unique vision and empathy, Salgado gives us a clearer picture of the enormous social and political transformations now occurring in a world divided between excess and need.

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About the author
In 1971, a Brazilian born economist for the International Coffee Organization arrived at a Rwandan plantation to evaluate its efficiency. It turned out to be a great moment for photojournalism. The economist had chosen his career out of compassion for the poor but on this particular trip, Salgado brought something more than his degree from the University of Paris - he bought his wife's camera. And when he returned to his home in London, he made an astonishing discovery. "I got far more pleasure from the pictures I'd taken than from the economic reports that I had to write," he recalls. "Photography was a better way to get inside reality."
(http://www.filmpicker.com/The%20Great%20Photographers/Salgado.htm)

Author's links

official site:
http://200.231.246.32/sesc/hotsites/exodos/home1.htm

works:
http://www.nytimes.com/specials/salgado/home
http://www.pdn-pix.com/legends/legends10/
http://www.terra.com.br/sebastiaosalgado
http://www.terra.com.br/sebastiaosalgado/migrations
http://www.terra.com.br/sebastiaosalgado
http://www.dadascanner.com/arte/salgado.htm
http://fototapeta.art.pl/fti-slg.html
http://www.artincontext.org/artist/s/sebastio_salgado/selected_exhibitions.htm
http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/vigo2/salgado.html
http://www5.ewebcity.com/marce/sebastiao/salgado.html
http://es.vavo.com/published/article-172.asp
http://www.telma.org/imagens/fotos/sal_00.htm
http://www.museum-der-arbeit.de/Sonder/Salgado_Bolius/
http://www.ojodepez.com/nt0021.shtml
http://www.museum-der-arbeit.de/Sonder/Salgado_Bolius/salgado.html
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/salgado/salgado.html

sites and other links:
http://www.patriagrande.net/brasil/sebastiao.salgado/fotos.htm
http://www.artincontext.org/artist/s/sebastio_salgado/
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/history/faculty/forsyth/HIST%20152,%20455,%20652%20Web%20Pages/salgado.html
http://www.citinv.it/associazioni/MST/salgado.htm

articles about Salgado:
http://www.tau.ac.il/eial/IX_1/mraz.html#foot29
http://www.bancofoto.com/fotoweb/fotografos/salgado/salgado.html
http://redaccion2.uc3m.es/77arrobas/3/salgado1.htm
http://www.citinv.it/associazioni/MST/salginte.htm
http://www.artreview.com/salgado/
http://www.filmpicker.com/The%20Great%20Photographers/Salgado.htm
http://www.clarence.com/contents/cultura-spettacolo/fotografia/salgado
http://www.foto.art.br/foto/salgado/eventos

interviews:
http://www.radio.rai.it/radio3/arte/salgado.htm
http://www.foto.art.br/foto/salgado/integra.htm