中文简介：

Sebastião Salgado在【创世纪】项目中拍摄的黑白照片记录了在现代社会和发展的破坏性冲击下未曾改变的风景和人民。Salgado称《创世纪》为 “给地球的情书”。

永恒的地球

向地球致敬的摄影作品

“在《创世纪》中，相机让大自然与我对话。很荣幸能够聆听大自然的声音。”——Sebastião Salgado

1970年一个非常偶然的日子里，26岁的Sebastião Salgado**次拿起相机。当他透过取景器看时，他感受到了一个启示:突然之间，生活变得有意义了。从那天起，相机成为了他与世界互动的工具，尽管他经过多年的努力才有了作为摄影师谋生的经验。Salgado总是喜欢黑白图像的明暗色调，在他早期的职业生涯中很少拍摄彩色照片，后来更是完全放弃了。

Salgado在巴西的一个农场长大，对大自然有着深深的热爱和尊重；他还特别注意到，人类往往受到破坏性的社会经济条件的影响。Salgado在广受赞誉的职业生涯中创作了无数的作品，其中有三个长期项目非常突出：《工人》（1993年），记录了世界各地体力劳动者正在消失的生活方式；《迁徙》（2000年），记录了由饥饿、自然灾害、环境恶化和人口压力导致的大规模迁徙；以及这部新作《创世纪》，是一次为期八年的史诗般的探险结果，它重新发现了那些逃脱了现代社会印记的山脉、沙漠、海洋、动物和民族——一个仍然纯净的土地和生命。Salgado提醒说：“地球上约有46%的地方仍然是创世纪时的样子。我们必须保护现有的东西”。【创世纪】项目与Salgado的地球研究所一起，致力于展示地球的美丽，扭转对它的破坏，呼吁大家为未来保护地球。

经过30次旅行——通过步行、轻型飞机、海船、独木舟、甚至气球，穿越极端炎热和寒冷，有时在危险的条件下——Salgado创造了一个图像集，向我们展示自然、动物和原住民的惊人之美。人们在《创世纪》中发现了什么？加拉帕戈斯的动物物种和火山；南极和南大西洋的企鹅、海狮、鸬鹚和鲸鱼；巴西的鳄鱼和美洲虎；非洲的狮子、豹子和大象；亚马逊丛林深处与世隔绝的Zo'é部落；西巴布亚石器时代的科罗威人；苏丹的丁卡游牧农民。北极圈内的游牧民族涅涅茨人和他们的驯鹿群；苏门答腊以西岛屿上的明打威丛林社区；南极的冰山；中非和堪察加半岛的火山；撒哈拉沙漠；亚马逊河的尼格罗河和茹鲁阿河；美国大峡谷；阿拉斯加冰川……Salgado在制作这部作品时投入了如此多的时间、精力和激情，他称《创世纪》是“给地球的情书”。

塞巴斯提奥·萨尔加多：创世纪

精装，5.5 x 7.7英寸，0.95磅，192页

ISBN 978-3-8365-9401-1

语言版本：英语

英文简介：

Sebastião Salgado's haunting black-and-white photographs from the GENESIS project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of modern society and development. Salgado calls GENESIS "my love letter to the planet."

Earth Eternal

A photographic homage to our planet

"In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen." —Sebastião Salgado

On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebastião Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder, he experienced a revelation: suddenly life made sense. From that day onward—though it took years of hard work before he had the experience to earn his living as a photographer—the camera became his tool for interacting with the world. Salgado, who "always preferred the chiaroscuro palette of black-and-white images," shot very little color in his early career before giving it up completely.

Raised on a farm in Brazil, Salgado possessed a deep love and respect for nature; he was also particularly sensitive to the ways in which human beings are affected by their often devastating socio-economic conditions. Of the myriad works Salgado has produced in his acclaimed career, three long-term projects stand out: Workers (1993), documenting the vanishing way of life of manual laborers across the world; Migrations (2000), a tribute to mass migration driven by hunger, natural disasters, environmental degradation and demographic pressure; and this new opus, GENESIS, the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society—the land and life of a still-pristine planet. "Some 46% of the planet is still as it was in the time of genesis," Salgado reminds us. "We must preserve what exists." The GENESIS project, along with the Salgados' Instituto Terra, are dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing the damage done to it, and preserving it for the future.

Over 30 trips—traveled by foot, light aircraft, seagoing vessels, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme heat and cold and in sometimes dangerous conditions—Salgado created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in breathtaking beauty. What does one discover in GENESIS? The animal species and volcanoes of the Galápagos; penguins, sea lions, cormorants, and whales of the Antarctic and South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; African lions, leopards, and elephants; the isolated Zo'é tribe deep in the Amazon jungle; the Stone Age Korowai people of West Papua; nomadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan; Nenet nomads and their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle; Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra; the icebergs of the Antarctic; the volcanoes of Central Africa and the Kamchatka Peninsula; Saharan deserts; the Negro and Juruá rivers in the Amazon; the ravines of the Grand Canyon; the glaciers of Alaska... and beyond. Having dedicated so much time, energy, and passion to the making of this work, Salgado calls GENESIS "my love letter to the planet."

Sebastião Salgado. Genesis

Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.7 in., 0.95 lb, 192 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-9401-1

Edition: English