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| Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
     
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Paperback
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. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Book Description
More then those of any other living photographer, Sebastipo Salgado's images of the world's poor stand in tribute to the human condition. Salgado defines his work as "militant photography" dedicated to "the best comprehension of man"; over the decades he has bestowed great dignity on the most isolated and neglected among us-- from famine-stricken refugees in the Sahel to the indigenous peoples of South America.
With Workers, Salgado brings us a global epic that transcends mere image making to become an affirmation of the enduring spirit of working men and women. In this volume, three hundred fifty duotone photographs form an archaeological perspective of the activities that have defined hard work from the Stone Age through the Industrial Revolution to the present. With images of the infernal landscape of an Indonesian sulfur mine, the drama of traditional Sicilian tuna fishing, and the staggering endurance of Brazilian gold miners, Salgado unearths layers of visual information to reveal the ceaseless human activity at the core of modern civilization.
Workers presents its subjects on several interactive levels: Salgado's introductory text expands his passionate photographic iconography, and extended captions, also written by Salgado, provide a historical and factual framework. Evoking the monumentality of Baroque sculpture, images of oil-fire fighters extinguishing Kuwaiti wells are informed by data detailing this perilous venture. Heroic photographs of Cuban and Brazilian peasants harvesting sugarcane are enriched by an overview of the history of the sugar trade, which documents centuries of colonialist exploitation.
On the eve of the millennium, Workers serves as an elegy for the passing of traditional methods of labor and production. Yet its ultimate message is one of endurance and hope: entire Indian families serve as construction crews to build a dam that will bring life to their land, and laborers using contemporary technology connect England and France through Eurotunnel. Honoring the timeless and indomitable spirit of the manual laborer, Workers renders the human condition with honesty and respect. |
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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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