- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd; New edition edition (1 April 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0714837008
- ISBN-13: 978-0714837000
- Product Dimensions: 33.2 x 25.1 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,220,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This volume tells the story of the forced migration of the Brazilian peasants and their struggle to survive in the face of joblessness and extreme poverty. In a series of photographs Salgado shows the efforts of the peasants to reclaim the arable land they see as their natural heritage and recounts how this fight has often resulted in bloodshed. He was present at a farm in the state of Para on 17 April 1996 when 19 peasants were massacred by soldiers during a demonstration. His empathy and understanding of the victims' plight and of human nature unbowed in the face of terrible adversity shines forth in these photographs, which are introduced by the Portuguese writer Jose Saramago and accompanied by poems by the Brazilian composer and popular singer Chico Buarque de Hollanda.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is an extraordinary work. It is the perfect andidote to the meaningless images we are presented with on television; Salgado shows us the the rich world how the majority of our brothers and sisters live. The grinding poverty is terrible, but the heroic resistence of the human spirit is stronger. The stares on the faces of Salgado's subjects will remain in my mind forever as a reproach and a reminder of how my comfort is built on their misery and suffering. The world's media will never mourn for the dead babies of Brazil's poor, but Salgado's images remind us that they are our brothers and sisters - our comrades, even - and that we are as responsible for them as we are for our neighbours in our safe, secure towns and cities.
Salgado is that rare thing; a great artist who knows that his duty is to be a witness to injustice and the immense human suffering that is its consequence. The next time you hear the 'great and the good' discussing 'poverty' think of the faces in this book and think of the countless million stories like theirs which we know nothing about.
Salgado is that rare thing; a great artist who knows that his duty is to be a witness to injustice and the immense human suffering that is its consequence. The next time you hear the 'great and the good' discussing 'poverty' think of the faces in this book and think of the countless million stories like theirs which we know nothing about.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Will blow you away, you will not know yourself...
19 Dec 2002
Format:Paperback
I took a look at this book in a book store, here in Berkeley Ca. The people you meet as you flip thru the photos make you want to re-examine your own life. Most of the people in these photographs have extremely difficult lives, due to a twist of fate rather than a personal choice. Salgado has not photographed them for pity or to gain sympathy from you, as much as he has shown you a side of yourself... and I am not talking about a "mirror" either. (I am talking about the side that you CAN'T see without Salgado's camera)
These people struggle and may suffer personal tragedies, but there is dignity in their souls. When you see these people, they may not be in control of their fate, whatever terrible fate it may be, but they are in control of their hearts. The blood that runs through the veins of the people Salgado introduced me to, in the photos from the other side of the globe, flows deeper, and redder, and richer than does the blood in my world...
Their lives are fleeting and so is yours my friend, but I believe they have wings; we do not. While you and I are burdened with the weight of unfunny jokes and political scandals, they are free, burdened only with broken hearts and bones that heal fast and clean...
I could not afford the price of the book myself, I could barely afford to stand there as long as I did reading the book; I mean how long can one view a side of oneself so rarely llumiminated?
Once I thought, all I needed to know was God, or to know a beautiful woman, or maybe just smile to bystanders... but I realize I KNOW NOTHING... and that leaves a lot for me to want to know, still. Good luck to you if you should get this book.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A lesson in empathy!!!
26 Mar 2003
Format:Paperback
A poignant illustration of the landless plight in Brazil! As evidenced by another reviewer, this book has the ability to thaw the heart of even the most ultra conservative (e.g. "Most of the people in these photographs have extremely difficult lives, due to a twist of fate rather than a personal choice.") They are landless because most middle-class Brazilians view the landless as making horrible life choices as opposed to being pushed by the wind of fate...and ironically they think descendents of Africans in the United States have much to teach "their" Amerindians and African populations about success. The irony! Yes, read it, see it, and see yourself.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
A mirror pointed at our soul
2 Sep 1997
Format:Hardcover
Once again, Sebastiao Salgado is back, and with two heavy weights by his side: Jose Saramago (preface) and Chico Buarque (poems).
Like all his previous works, the camera that made `Terra' points to the heart of all human being worthy of that classification; with Chico's poems pointing at each ones soul and Saramago's pen pointing at our conscience (and that of God), if this book does not make us see the world in a whole different way, then we better worry before looking at the mirror...
Fernando Gouveia (fgouveia@marao.utad.pt), Vila Real, Portugal
Like all his previous works, the camera that made `Terra' points to the heart of all human being worthy of that classification; with Chico's poems pointing at each ones soul and Saramago's pen pointing at our conscience (and that of God), if this book does not make us see the world in a whole different way, then we better worry before looking at the mirror...
Fernando Gouveia (fgouveia@marao.utad.pt), Vila Real, Portugal
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