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The Sebastião Salgado Amazônia hardback documents six years of photography across the Brazilian Amazon, capturing its rainforest, rivers, mountains, and indigenous peoples. Spanning 528 pages, the volume presents Salgado's work in a comprehensive hardback format, with a foreword written by the photographer himself on the nature and significance of the region. The book is dedicated to the indigenous peoples of Brazil's Amazon and includes Salgado's reflections on the area as a vast natural environment containing one-tenth of all living plant and animal species on earth.
Documenting the six years Sebastião Salgado travelled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the rainforest, rivers, mountains and the people who live there, Taschen's 'Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia' presents the photographer's resulting work in a 528-page hardback. Dedicated to the indigenous peoples of Brazil’s Amazon region, the book includes a foreword from Salgado on the magic of the region, stating “For me, it is the last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power of nature can be felt as nowhere else on earth. Here is a forest stretching to infinity that contains one-tenth of all living plant and animal species, the world’s largest single natural laboratory.”
