Lot 79
  • 79

Sebastião Salgado (b. 1944)

Estimate
4,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sebastião Salgado
  • Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986
Selenium-toned silver print. Signed, titled and dated 'Brasil 1986' in pencil on the reverse. With the photographer's copyright blindstamp in the margin at lower left. Printed 2008.

Literature

Salgado, Sebastião, Workers. An Archeology of the Industrial Age, Phaidon, London/ New York, 1994, p. 314.

Condition

Very slight rippling at extremities of left and right paper edges, in margin area only. A print in excellent condition.
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