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| Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
     
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Hardcover
400 pages
Aperture
Published 1993
From Publishers Weekly
Even as machines, robots and computers replace workers, Salgado's powerful, striking photographs reveal the backbreaking and unrelenting toil that is still the lot of millions of men and women around the globe. Never preachy or didactic, these 350 duotone images of tea pickers in Rwanda, dam builders in India, steelworkers in France and Ukraine, sugarcane harvesters in Brazil, assembly-line workers in Russia and China, sulfur miners in Indonesia and others, pay tribute to working people who preserve their dignity in the harshest conditions. In the lyrical accompanying essay, Salgado ( An Uncertain Grace ) laments Japan's industrial fishing which decimates fish stocks, France's agricultural policies and the global exploitation of manual laborers who do the bulk of the world's work.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Salgado, an economist by training, documents the unforgettable faces of workers at their jobs around the world. His widely published images of the oil-field firefighters in Kuwait may be the most familiar to U.S. readers. The catalog for a traveling exhibition, this book is divided into six chapters--Agriculture, Food, Mining, Industry, Oil, and Construction--that show the basest realities of work in some of its uncountable forms, from fishing in Spain, to textile factories in Kazakhstan,... read more
Book Description
An Aperture Classic
Sebastipo Salgado's epic Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age brings us a global epic that transcends mere image making to become an affirmation of the enduring spirit of working men and women. Workers has received international acclaim, resulting in Salgado being heralded as one of the foremost photographers of our age.
"Salgado unveils the pain, the beauty, and the brutality of the world of work on which everything rests. This is a collection of deep devotion and impressive skill." -Arthur Miller
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. |
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An Uncertain Grace: Essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin
Eduardo Galeano; Sebastiao Salgado (Photographer); & Fred Ritchin |  |
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Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
Sebastiao Salgado |  |
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The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease
Sebastiao Salgado |  |
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The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease
Sebastiao Salgado |  |
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The Children: Refugees and Migrants
Sebastiao Salgado |  |
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Migrations: Humanity in Transition
Sebastiao Salgado |  |
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Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
Sebastiao Salgado (Photographer) |  |
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Sahel. The End of the Road. (Series in Contemporary Photography, 3)
Sebastiao Salgado (Photographer) |  |
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Sahel. The End of the Road. (Series in Contemporary Photography, 3)
Sebastiao Salgado (Photographer) | |
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China: 50 Years Inside the People's Republic
Rae Yang; Sebastiao Salgado (Photographer); & Wu Jialin (Photographer) |  |
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