01. “Amazônia,” a book by Sebastião Salgado

Amazônia by Sebastião Salgado. Taschen, 2022. Translated from Portuguese to English by Steven Capsuto.
– Coffee table edition: 527 pp.
– Smaller edition: 191 pp.

THE CRITICS SAY:

“In stunning and captivating photos and text, Salgado delivers a piercing look at a lost world, still surviving but under immense threat.” ― ecowatch.com

“Amazônia speaks to the idea that humans can live on this planet in a sustainable way, through profiling the forest’s indigenous communities, and offering fresh perspectives on the forest itself.” ― CNN.com

“Amazônia, a stunning succession of black and white panoramas. Looking through his images, I feel the same awe I would feel in front of sublime paintings: serpentine rivers flow through seemingly limitless forests, sheer-sided rock escarpments vanish into skies, and apocalyptic clouds loom over wispy treetops.” ― The Guardian

“Sebastião Salgado has spent more than two decades documenting the complex lives of Indigenous Amazonian people as they stand strong in the face of unrelenting colonial forces.” ― Scientific American

“Superb.” ― The Guardian

“An exceptional book on the beauty of this almost lost paradise, threatened by a galloping deforestation.” ― Le Soir

PUBLISHER’S BLURB:

For six years, Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region: the rainforest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there—this irreplaceable treasure of humanity in which the immense power of nature is felt like nowhere else on earth.