An Uncertain Grace: Essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin FROM THE PUBLISHER
An Uncertain Grace. Photographs by Sebasti�o Salgado.
Essays by Eduardo Galeano, Fred Ritchin. An Uncertain Grace represents Salgado's journey from poor villages in the Andes to mining shanties in the Brazilian jungle, to refugee camps in famine-stricken Ethiopia, Chad, and Mali. In brilliantly conceived photographs he captures people's inner strength and fortitude while they fight for survival. Sebasti�o Salgado has received the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography as well as many other awards. Noted critic and author of the critically acclaimed Book of Embraces, Eduardo Galeano contributes the introduction. Fred Ritchin, critic, author, and editor, has written about the influences that shaped Salgado's vision. 129 duotone photographs, 11 x 12 3/4, 154 pages. paperback;
"Sebasti�o Salgado is one of photojournalism's freshest talents, combining an eye for innovative compositions with an instinct for what will connect with his audience's heart. The pictures in An Uncertain Grace range in locale from mining camps in Brazil to the Ethiopian desert, and from topical reportage, covering famine and refugee camps, to such broad subjects as labor in the third world."
"An Uncertain Grace is an epic work that raises profoundly disturbing questions about our attitudes and responses to suffering."
Kristine McKenna, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Sebasti�o Salgado wears the weighty mantle of the foremost photojournalist of our time, the natural heir to Henri Cartier-Bresson. Like the celebrated Frenchman, however, to merely label Salgado a "photojournalist" is to do him and injustice. His powerful photographs of the world's dispossessed transcthe temporal andvibrate on the plane of the eternal."
Dean Brierly, Camera & Darkroom
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
This lovely yet disturbing book of black-and-white photographs takes viewers from a Brazilian gold mine, where men struggle with bags of dirt, to western Africa, where starving people haunt the desert landscape. As unsettling as the photographs are, they are each tempered by the sensitive, caring eye of the photographer. Aptly titled, the collection as a whole confronts us with the most fundamental question: What place do humans have on this planet? In each photograph we see what a thin line separates hope and despair. Salgado is one of the world's finest documentary photographers, and this selection of his photographs is highly recommended.-- Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, Ill.
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