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The Sebastião Salgado. Gold photography book documents the Serra Pelada open-air gold mine, once the world's largest, through an extensive black-and-white photographic portfolio. Capturing the lives of some 50,000 diggers working under harsh conditions, the collection serves as a major historical record of Brazil's gold rush era. Its reproductions present Salgado's imagery at a scale and quality suited to serious photographic study and archival reference.
For a decade, Serra Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world’s largest open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling conditions. Today, Brazil’s gold rush is merely the stuff of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained regrets—and Sebastião Salgado’s photographs. This collection is a major document of modern history and an extraordinary photographic portfolio.Also available in a signed and limited Collector’s Edition
