“THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HUMANITY”: FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH OF SALGADO’S LA MAIN DE L’HOMME, WITH 346 BRILLIANT DUOTONES

SALGADO, Sebastião. La Main de l’Homme: Une Archéologie de lÈre Industrielle. [Paris]: Éditions de La Martinière (Plon), (1993). Folio, original gray cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. Caption booklet in rear pocket. $150.

First edition in French of Salgado’s electrifying homage to manual laborers, with 346 dramatic duotones. From the collection of award-winning photojournlaist Peter Turnley.

“Salgado is one of the Masters of black and white of today” (Le Monde). Praised by Gabriel García Márquez as a work nothing less than “the photography of humanity,” this compelling tribute to manual labor by the award-winning Brazilian photographer “brings to the composition of photojournalism skills akin to those of the painter Caravaggio.” Here Salgado “documents a world where darkness is powerful and invites the sudden effects of light as poetic revelation, smoke-filled shafts of light, nuanced caresses along the edges of form… There is enormous power in these images” (New York Times). Salgado has often used his photographs to directly ameliorate the conditions he has photographed. “For example, while documenting the effect of widespread famine on the people of the Sahel region in Africa, he donated much of his work to Doctors Without Borders, the French humanitarian aid agency” (Amazonas). In his own words, “All my work is linked together like different chapters of the same story.” With caption booklet in rear pocket. See Parr & Badger II:256. From the library of Peter Turnley, acclaimed photojournalist for Newsweek, Life and Harper’s Magazine, who has covered “almost every important international news event of the last 15 years” (New York Times).

A fine copy.