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Series Title: Workers

Gold Serra Pelada, State of Parà, Brazil

1986, printed 1995

Sebastião Salgado

(Brazilian, 1944–2025)
Culture
Brazil
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 30 x 44.2 cm (11 13/16 x 17 3/8 in.); Paper: 39.8 x 50.2 cm (15 11/16 x 19 3/4 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
The Julius L. Greenfield Photography Acquisition Fund 1995.83
Copyright
© Sebastiào Salgado
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Perhaps more than those of any other living photographer, Sebastião Salgado's photographs of the world's poor make a compassionate statement on the human condition. In his images, the artist chronicles the large-scale use of manual labor in pre-industrial Third World countries. Here, loaded down with bags of earth and mud, over 50,000 men are reduced to the size of ants as they climb up and down the walls of gigantic, terraced pits on primitive ladders in the gold mines of Serra Pelada.

Gold Serra Pelada, State of Parà, Brazil

1986, printed 1995

Sebastião Salgado

(Brazilian, 1944–2025)
Brazil

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