Books by Sebastiao Salgado

Highlights the larger meaning of what is happening to the author's subjects with an imagery that testifies to the fundamental dignity of all humanity while simultaneously protesting its violation by war, poverty, and other injustices.

In January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein's troops retaliated with an inferno. As much a major document of modern history as an extraordinary photographic portfolio, Kuwait: A Desert on Fire is the first monograph on Sebastiao Salgado's astonishing 1991 series on the human,...

Capturing spiritual and religious practices, changing rural landscapes, and intimate domestic life, this book features forty-nine black-and-white photographs taken between 1977 and 1984.