For six years Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there—this irreplaceable treasure of humanity in which the immense power of nature is felt like nowhere else on earth.
Now available in a limited Collector’s Edition and four Art Editions, each signed by Sebastião Salgado, with a corresponding bookstand designed by Renzo Piano exclusively for the Amazônia project.
Salgado visited a dozen indigenous tribes that exist in tiny communities scattered across the largest tropical rainforest in the world. He documented the daily life of the Yanomami, the Asháninka, the Yawanawá, the Suruwahá, the Zo’é, the Kuikuro, the Waurá, the Kamayurá, the Korubo, the Marubo, the Awá, and the Macuxi—their warm family bonds, their hunting and fishing, the manner in which they prepare and share meals, their marvelous talent for painting their faces and bodies, the significance of their shamans, and their dances and rituals.
Sebastião Salgado has dedicated this book to the indigenous peoples of Brazil’s Amazon region: “My wish, with all my heart, with all my energy, with all the passion I possess, is that in 50 years’ time this book will not resemble a record of a lost world. Amazônia must live on.”
Sebastião Salgado - Amazônia - Art Edition No. 1–100 ‘Adão Yawanawá in a headdress of eagle feathers’ - 2021
Medium: Gelatin silver print on Ilford FB warmtone paper. Hardcover volume, 70 x 50.5 cm, 24.9 kg (54.78 lb), 472 pages; caption book, 25.5 x 35 cm, 32 pages; bookstand made from mild steel with powder coated painting and rubber adjustable feet, 46 kg.
Size: 50.5 x 37 cm on 60 x 50 cm paper
Edition: 100
Signed and numbered
Price: £7,500
Sebastião Salgado - Amazônia - Art Edition No. 101–200 ‘Young Hatiri Suruwahá bathes in a backwater of the Pretão stream’ - 2021
Medium: Gelatin silver print on Ilford FB warmtone paper. Hardcover volume, 70 x 50.5 cm, 24.9 kg (54.78 lb), 472 pages; caption book, 25.5 x 35 cm, 32 pages; bookstand made from mild steel with powder coated painting and rubber adjustable feet, 46 kg.
Size: 50.5 x 37 cm on 60 x 50 cm paper
Edition: 100
Signed and numbered
Price: £7,500
Sebastião Salgado - Amazônia - Art Edition No. 201–300 ‘Marauiá Mountain Range’ - 2021
Medium: Gelatin silver print on Ilford FB warmtone paper. Hardcover volume, 70 x 50.5 cm, 24.9 kg (54.78 lb), 472 pages; caption book, 25.5 x 35 cm, 32 pages; bookstand made from mild steel with powder coated painting and rubber adjustable feet, 46 kg.
Size: 51.3 x 34 cm on 60 x 50 cm paper
Edition: 100
Signed and numbered
Price: £7,500
Sebastião Salgado - Amazônia - Art Edition No. 301–400 ‘The Paraná connecting the Rio Negro with the Cuyuní River’ - 2021
Medium: Gelatin silver print on Ilford FB warmtone paper. Hardcover volume, 70 x 50.5 cm, 24.9 kg (54.78 lb), 472 pages; caption book, 25.5 x 35 cm, 32 pages; bookstand made from mild steel with powder coated painting and rubber adjustable feet, 46 kg.
Size: 51.3 x 34 cm on 60 x 50 cm paper
Edition: 100
Signed and numbered
Price: £7,500
These editions are available to pre-order now from TASCHEN.
