Image of the week : tribute to Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Salgado, the humanist Franco-Brazilian photographer, is one of the most important artists in his field.

For Génesis, his eight-year odyssey recounting the genesis of our planet, he boarded the schooner Tara from Ushuaïa to reach Antarctica.

Chinstrap penguins, Bailey Head, Deception Island

A visionary, he photographed the earth, its people and nature, its beauty but also its upheavals.
The imprint he leaves behind is an invitation to contemplate and act to preserve life and its treasures, threatened by human activity.

 

Sebastião Salgado – East of Antarctic Peninsula (2005).

Iceberg between the Paulet Island and the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, 2005

Courtesy of Sotheby’s

 

 The foundation pays tribute to him with this photograph, taken in the Antarctic Peninsula and exhibited in the retrospective of artists in residence “La grande expédition” at 104 CENTQUATRE.

 

 

Links :

• NYTimes : Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81
• PetaPixel : A Bridge Across Time: For Sebastião Salgado
• TheArtNewspaper : Sebastião Salgado, photographer of the planet’s margins, dies at 81
• BBC : Legendary photographer Sebastião Salgado dies at 81
• The Guardian : Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer / Sebastião Salgado: ‘I was transformed into an environmentalist’ 
• AP News : Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado dies at 81, leaving behind a monumental legacy