MAGNUM OPUS” CONSISTS OF FIFTY SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS REPRESENTING SEBASTIÃO SALGADO’S MAJOR WORKS OVER FIVE DECADES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
The images, a selection specially made by Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Wanick Salgado, include some from his two most recent series, Amazônia and Genesis, each the result of seven years’ work, as well as from older projects, such as Other Americas, Sahel and Workers. Also present are the well-know images from the Brazilian gold mine, Serra Pelada, and from the burning oil fields of Kuwait, set alight on orders of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 1991.
Sebastião Salgado
Magnum Opus
ends 17 March 2023
Robert Klein Gallery
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Sebastião Salgado Greater Burhan Oil Field, Kuwait, 1991 © Sebastião Salgado, Courtesy Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Sebastião Salgado Greater Burhan Oil Field, Kuwait, 1991 © Sebastião Salgado, Courtesy Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Sebastião Salgado Ecuador, 1982 © Sebastião Salgado, Courtesy Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Sebastião Salgado Serra Pelada gold mine, State of Pará, Brazil, 1986 © Sebastião Salgado, Courtesy Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Sebastião Salgado Serra Pelada gold mine, State of Pará, Brazil, 1986 © Sebastião Salgado, Courtesy Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
