Beschreibung:
This is the first full critical study of the work of the popular documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado. Nair explores all the stages of Salgado's work, including the recent more ecological subjects, showing its planetary commitments.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Photo-Trajectory 11. The Moving Lens: Abiding Concerns and Photographic Projects 492. Engaging Photography: Between the Aesthetic and the Documentary 1193. Eye Witness: On Photography and Historiography 1674. Just Regard: On Photography, Aesthetics, and Ethics 2175. The Practice of Photography: Toward a Polity of the Planet 264Notes 315Bibliography 341Index 351