Parvati Nair

A Different Light

The Photography of Sebastião Salgado

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Produktbeschreibung

The popular documentary photographer Sebastiao Salgado was born in Brazil (part of the global south) but his work has been criticized for the way it aestheticizes his subaltern subjects. This title describes the painstaking work on individual prints done by the artist and his wife.

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This is the first full critical study of the work of the popular documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado. Nair explores all the stages of Salgado's work, including the recent more ecological subjects, showing its planetary commitments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 733g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350484
• ISBN-10: 0822350483
• Artikelnr.: 34163078

Autorenporträt

Parvati Nair

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Photo-Trajectory 1
1. The Moving Lens: Abiding Concerns and Photographic Projects 49
2. Engaging Photography: Between the Aesthetic and the Documentary 119
3. Eye Witness: On Photography and Historiography 167
4. Just Regard: On Photography, Aesthetics, and Ethics 217
5. The Practice of Photography: Toward a Polity of the Planet 264
Notes 315
Bibliography 341
Index 351