Main entry:

Salgado, Sebastião, 1944- photographer, author.

Title & Author:

Workers : an archaeology of the industrial age / photographs, texts, and captions by Sebastião Salgado ; introduction text by Sebastião Salgado and Eric Nepomuceno ; translation by Alan Riding ; conception and design by Lélia Wanick Salgado.

Publication:

New York : Aperture, [1993]
©1993

Description:

399 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 34 cm + 1 pamphlet (23 pages ; 29 cm)

Notes:
"Workers, a major traveling exhibition, will open in North America at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in April 1993 and will travel throughout the world."--Title page verso.
Catalog in pocket.
"Workers, a major traveling exhibition, will open in North America at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in April 1993 and will travel throughout the world"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-400).
Sugarcane: Brazil and Cuba -- Tea: Rwanda -- Tobacco: Cuba -- Cocoa: Brazil -- Perfume: Reunion -- Fishing: Galicia, Spain -- Tuna fishing: Sicily, Italy -- Slaughterhouse: South Dakota, United States -- Textiles: Bangladesh and Kazakhstan -- Bicycles: Shanghai and Tianjin, China -- Scooters: Pune, India -- Motorcycles: Madras, India -- Automobiles: Ukraine, Russia, India and China -- Shipyards: Poland and France -- Shipbreaking: Bangladesh -- Titanium and Magnesium: Kazakhstan -- Lead: Kazakhstan -- Steel: France and Ukraine -- Railroads: France -- Iron Ore: Kazakhstan -- Coal: India -- Sulfur: Indonesia -- Gold: Serra Pelada, Brazil -- Oil:Baku, Azerbaijan -- Oil wells: Kuwait -- Eurotunnel: France and England -- The Sandar Sarovar Dam and irrigation canal: India -- Rajasthan Canal: Rajasthan, India.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This book is a global epic that transcends mere image-making to become an affirmation of the enduring spirit of working women and men. Sebastiao Salgado unearths layers of visual information to reveal the ceaseless human activity at the core of modern civilization. His extended captions provide a historical and factual framework for the images, which are divided into six chapters: Agriculture, Food, Mining, Industry, Oil and Construction. Though an elegy for the passing of traditional methods of labour and production, Workers ultimately delivers a message of endurance and hope.
'A vast and beautiful anthology of the condition of labour.' (Guardian).
'A magnificent book.' (The Sunday Times).
'One of the most highly acclaimed photography books of the last few decades.' (British Journal of Photography).

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

089381525X (hardcover)
9780893815257 (hardcover)
0893815500 (paperback)
9780893815509 (paperback)
0893815403 (museum catalog)
9780893815400 (museum catalog)

Subject:

Salgado, Sebastião, 1944- Exhibitions.
Salgado, Sebastião, 1944-
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Documentary photography Exhibitions.
Working class Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Peasants Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Working class Pictorial works.
Peasants Pictorial works.
Documentary photography.
Travailleurs Ouvrages illustrés.
Paysannerie Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie documentaire.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photographie documentaire Expositions.
Travailleurs Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Paysannerie Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
documentary photography.
Peasants
Photography, Artistic
Working class
Arbeiders.
Foto's.
workers.
working conditions.
Fotokonst.
Peasantry Pictorial works Exhibitions.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Pictorial works
Illustrated works
Exhibition, pictorial works
photograph.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Bildverk.

Added entries:

Nepomuceno, Eric, 1948- writer of introduction.
Riding, Alan, translator.
Salgado, Lélia Wanick, book designer.
Nepomuceno, Eric, 1948-
Salgado, Lélia Wanick.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, host institution.
Aperture Foundation, publisher.
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193376
Call No.: TR140.S164 (ID:97-B4430)
Status: Available