
Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado
A powerful photographic documentation of Serra Pelada, the massive open-pit gold mine in Brazil, capturing the overwhelming scale of human labor and exploitation. Salgado's epic imagery reveals thousands of workers in the treacherous mining operation.
- Medium
- Serra Pelada, Gold Mine, Brazil (Cast of Thousands)
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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Photographs
April 4, 2019
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