Sebastião Salgado : Amazônia

Description

Paradise under threat.

Sebastião Salgado follows in the footsteps of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforest.

For six years, Sebastião Salgado travelled throughout the Brazilian Amazon, photographing the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the peoples who live there - an irreplaceable heritage of humanity.

Salgado visited a dozen indigenous tribes organised into tiny communities across the largest tropical forest on the planet. He documented the daily lives of the Yanomami, Asháninka, Yawanawá, Suruwahá, Zo'é, Kuikuro, Waurá, Kamayurá, Korubo, Marubo, Awá and Macuxi: the warmth of their family ties, their hunting and fishing, the way they prepare and share meals, their wonderful talent for painting their faces and bodies, the importance of their shamans, their dances and rituals.

Sebastião Salgado dedicated this book to the indigenous peoples of the Amazon region of Brazil: 'I wish with all my heart, with all my energy, with everything that lives intensely within me, that in fifty years' time this book will not resemble a record of a lost world. Amazônia must continue to be.'

INSTITUTO TERRA:
Founded in 1998 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Instituto Terra marks the culmination of a lifetime of commitment and work as cultural documentarians for Lélia Wanick Salgado and Sebastião Salgado. Through a scientific programme of replanting and nurseries, the organisation has achieved a miraculous reforestation of this once barren region, contributing to the Salgados' mission to repair the damage done to our planet. TASCHEN is proud to achieve carbon neutrality through our long-standing partnership.