Salgado, Gold
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",What is it about a dull yellow metal that drives men to abandon
their homes, sell their belongings and cross a continent in order
to risk life, limbs and sanity for a dream?", - Sebastiao
SalgadoWhen Sebastiao Salgado was finally authorized to visit Serra
Pelada in September 1986, having been blocked for six years by
Brazil's military authorities, he was ill-prepared to take in the
extraordinary spectacle that awaited him on this remote hilltop on
the edge of the Amazon rainforest. Before him opened a vast hole,
some 200 meters wide and deep, teeming with tens of thousands of
barely-clothed men. Half of them carried sacks weighing up to 40
kilograms up wooden ladders, the others leaping down muddy slopes
back into the cavernous maw.Their bodies and faces were the color
of ochre, stained by the iron ore in the earth they had excavated.
After gold was discovered in one of its streams in 1979, Serra
Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world's largest
open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling
conditions. Today, Brazil's wildest gold rush is merely the stuff
of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained
regrets-and Sebastiao Salgado's photographs.Color dominated the
glossy pages of magazines when Salgado shot these images. Black and
white was a risky path, but the Serra Pelada portfolio would mark a
return to the grace of monochrome photography, following a
tradition whose masters, from Edward Weston and Brassai to Robert
Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, had defined the early and mid-20th
century. When Salgado's images reached The New York Times Magazine,
something extraordinary happened: there was complete silence.",In
my entire career at The New York Times,", recalled photo editor
Peter Howe, ",I never saw editors react to any set of pictures as
they did to Serra Pelada.",Today, with photography absorbed by the
art world and digital manipulation, Salgado's portfolio holds a
biblical quality and projects an immediacy that makes them vividly
contemporary. The mine at Serra Pelada has been long closed, yet
the intense drama of the gold rush leaps out of these images. This
book gathers Salgado's complete Serra Pelada portfolio in
museum-quality reproductions, accompanied by a foreword by the
photographer and an essay by Alan Riding.Also available in a signed
and limited Collector's Edition and as an Art Edition.
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