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Sebastião Salgado’s masterpiece Genesis is the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts, and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society—the land and life of a still pristine planet. The Genesis project, along with the Salgados’ Instituto Terra, is dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing the damage done to it, and preserving it for the future. On over 30 trips—by foot, light aircraft, boats, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme temperatures and in sometimes dangerous conditions—Salgado has created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in such intense beauty it takes our breath away. The reach is truly global. Through Salgado’s lens, one discovers the animal species and volcanoes of the Galápagos; the penguins, sea lions, cormorants, and whales of the South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators and jaguars; and African lions, leopards, and elephants. We travel over icebergs in the Antarctic, the volcanoes of Central Africa, the ravines of the Grand Canyon, and the glaciers of Alaska. We encounter the Stone Age Korowai people of West Papua, nomadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan, Nenets and their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle, as well as the Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra. In characteristic monochrome, Salgado’s painterly notes are perfectly tuned to these sublime scenes, capturing sweeping aerial panoramas as much as the most intricate details and textures, from a reptilian skin to the fur coat of the Nenet people of northern Siberia. The exquisitely reproduced images are arranged not by theme but rather conceived as a journey around the globe, immersing them in Salgado’s vision of the Earth’s mesmerizing scale, order, and beauty.INSTITUTO TERRAFounded in 1998 at Aimorés in the state of Minas Gerais, Instituto Terra is the culmination of Lélia Wanick Salgado and Sebastião Salgado’s lifelong activism and work as cultural documentarians. Through a scientific program of planting and raising saplings, the organization has performed a miraculous reforestation of the once infertile region and furthered the Salgados’ mission of reversing the damage done to our planet. TASCHEN is proud to reach carbon zero status through our continued partnership.

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A genuine masterpiece from one of the greatest names in contemporary photography... For me it's almost a biblical work--at once epic and fundamental--that attains the pinnacle of the art. His contribution to photography is what Beethoven's Ninth is to music. It is a gift to humanity from a genius of image creation. It is perhaps the most amazing photography I have ever seen. A book for always. Educational institutions must buy this book for their libraries...The reader will be held by the sheer engagement of the contents of the book. And what a book! Salgado's magnum opus is breath-taking in its scope. It's a book to be read slowly and thoughtfully, holding the reader spellbound, with all images and no copy. A strange combination of beautiful vision and inspiration leads one to turn the pages. If you are passionate about photography you must buy this book. It's a stunning masterpiece -- a true book for the ages. Mr. Salgado's images have enormous gravity and sweep, an almost godlike omniscience. His black, white, and silver hues are so rich that his images seem to have been marinated in crude oil. These pictures are a religious experience. They celebrate the preciousness of life. ...What we have here are images that are seen as big as the life they depict, where the viewer becomes an integral part of the panorama, spread out in humongous majesty! What is shown in the book is what must be preserved and you understand that Salgado and TASCHEN are contributing to the awareness about the world we live in, and questioning how we live in it without giving something back...GENESIS is a photographic concerto from two men who took the risk of brining immortality to a morally wounded planet...

It's a stunning masterpiece -- a true book for the ages. ...What we have here are images that are seen as big as the life they depict, where the viewer becomes an integral part of the panorama, spread out in humongous majesty! What is shown in the book is what must be preserved and you understand that Salgado and TASCHEN are contributing to the awareness about the world we live in, and questioning how we live in it without giving something back...GENESIS is a photographic concerto from two men who took the risk of brining immortality to a morally wounded planet... A genuine masterpiece from one of the greatest names in contemporary photography... For me it's almost a biblical work--at once epic and fundamental--that attains the pinnacle of the art. His contribution to photography is what Beethoven's Ninth is to music. It is a gift to humanity from a genius of image creation. It is perhaps the most amazing photography I have ever seen. A book for always. Mr. Salgado's images have enormous gravity and sweep, an almost godlike omniscience. His black, white, and silver hues are so rich that his images seem to have been marinated in crude oil. Educational institutions must buy this book for their libraries...The reader will be held by the sheer engagement of the contents of the book. And what a book! Salgado's magnum opus is breath-taking in its scope. It's a book to be read slowly and thoughtfully, holding the reader spellbound, with all images and no copy. A strange combination of beautiful vision and inspiration leads one to turn the pages. If you are passionate about photography you must buy this book. These pictures are a religious experience. They celebrate the preciousness of life.

A genuine masterpiece from one of the greatest names in contemporary photography... For me it's almost a biblical work--at once epic and fundamental--that attains the pinnacle of the art. His contribution to photography is what Beethoven's Ninth is to music. It is a gift to humanity from a genius of image creation. It is perhaps the most amazing photography I have ever seen. A book for always. Mr. Salgado's images have enormous gravity and sweep, an almost godlike omniscience. His black, white, and silver hues are so rich that his images seem to have been marinated in crude oil. Educational institutions must buy this book for their libraries...The reader will be held by the sheer engagement of the contents of the book. And what a book! Salgado's magnum opus is breath-taking in its scope. It's a book to be read slowly and thoughtfully, holding the reader spellbound, with all images and no copy. A strange combination of beautiful vision and inspiration leads one to turn the pages. If you are passionate about photography you must buy this book. It's a stunning masterpiece -- a true book for the ages. These pictures are a religious experience. They celebrate the preciousness of life. ...What we have here are images that are seen as big as the life they depict, where the viewer becomes an integral part of the panorama, spread out in humongous majesty! What is shown in the book is what must be preserved and you understand that Salgado and TASCHEN are contributing to the awareness about the world we live in, and questioning how we live in it without giving something back...GENESIS is a photographic concerto from two men who took the risk of brining immortality to a morally wounded planet...

It's a stunning masterpiece -- a true book for the ages. ...a tribute to the diversity of planet earth. GENESIS will further cement Salgado's reputation as one if the most significant photographers of his age. GENESIS is something new, something quite different. Stylistically and conceptually it is a new direction. GENESIS... a biblical title that suits the majesty of his subjects and offers the work as a beautifully articulated prayer for preservation and respect. GENESIS honors its biblical antecedent... there could be no more powerful reminder of all that we stand to lose.

Les images de M. Salgado sont empreintes d'une gravite et d'une amplitude immenses, une omniscience presque divine. Ses nuances de blanc, de noir et de gris sont si riches que ses images semblent avoir trempe dans le petrole brut. Un veritable chef-d'oeuvre d'un des plus grands noms de la photographie contemporaine... Je trouve que c'est presque une oeuvre biblique -- a la fois epique et essentielle -- qui atteint le sommet de cet art. Sa contribution a la photographie est ce que la neuvieme de Beethoven est a la musique. C'est un cadeau a l'humanite d'un genie de la creation d'image. C'est peut-etre ce que j'ai vu de plus incroyable en matiere de photographie. Un livre eternel. C'est un chef d'oeuvre epoustouflant -- un livre qui fera date. Ces images sont une messe. Elles celebrent la preciosite de la vie. GENESIS fait honneur a sa biblique ascendance. Il n'existait pas de moyen plus puissant pour nous rappeler tout ce que nous risquons de perdre.

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Lélia Wanick Salgado studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in 1970. In the 1980s, she began to conceive and design the majority of Sebastião Salgado’s photography books and all of the exhibitions of his work.  Sebastião Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos. In 1994, he and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado created Amazonas Images, which is today their studio, and exclusively handles his work. Salgado’s photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Sahel. L’Homme en détresse (1986), Other Americas (1986), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), The Scent of a Dream (2015), Kuwait. A Desert on Fire (2016), Gold (2019) and Amazônia (2021).

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