Sebastião Salgado
Genesis Collector’s Edition Volumes I and II

Book, 27.6 x 18.4 inches, 704 pages
Edition 1044/3000 + 300 AP, Signed, on title page
Courtesy of anonymous
Estimated value: $4,000

Genesis is Sebastião Salgado’s love letter to the planet, a monumental portfolio of nature, animals, and indigenous peoples that reveals the earth in all the precious splendor of its pristine state. In characteristic monochrome, this SUMO-sized collection is truly breathtaking, replete with stunning panoramas as much as the most intricate textures and details of our natural world.

This two-volume SUMO-size edition is designed and edited by Lélia Wanick Salgado and numbered and signed by Sebastião Salgado. Quarter-leather bound, it is presented with a bookstand in cherry wood veneer designed by Tadao Ando and a clothbound caption book explaining each stunning shot.

About the Artist:
Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with 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), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013), The Scent of a Dream (2015), Kuwait: A Desert on Fire (2016), and Gold (2019).