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Exodos
New Edition - 2016
Uma Nova Edição da Classica Obra de Sebastiao Salgado sobre exilaos, migrantes e refugiados.
Durante seis anos, Sebastião Salgado documentou a história da migração humana em 35 países. Deslocada em plena marcha, em grandes campos de refugiados e em favelas lotadas, o premiado fotógrafo dá testemunho do êxodo de diferentes povos. Vemos os hutus de Ruanda escondidos em selvas remotas; os habitantes das favelas que sufocam São Paulo e os ocupantes dos primeiros barcos da África Subsaariana que tentam atravessar o Mediterrâneo para chegar à Europa. “Êxodos”, que aborda tanto a dimensão global da crise migratória como esmagadoras histórias individuais de exílio, é antes de tudo uma chamada à ação para além da compaixão.
Uma Nova Edição da Classica Obra de Sebastiao Salgado sobre exilaos, migrantes e refugiados.
Durante seis anos, Sebastião Salgado documentou a história da migração humana em 35 países. Deslocada em plena marcha, em grandes campos de refugiados e em favelas lotadas, o premiado fotógrafo dá testemunho do êxodo de diferentes povos. Vemos os hutus de Ruanda escondidos em selvas remotas; os habitantes das favelas que sufocam São Paulo e os ocupantes dos primeiros barcos da África Subsaariana que tentam atravessar o Mediterrâneo para chegar à Europa. “Êxodos”, que aborda tanto a dimensão global da crise migratória como esmagadoras histórias individuais de exílio, é antes de tudo uma chamada à ação para além da compaixão.
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431 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 2000
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About the author
Sebastião Salgado
80 books189 followersSebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
He traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.
Salgado was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982, Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992; and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016.
He traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.
Salgado was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in 1982, Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992; and the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1993. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France since April 2016.
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July 13, 2017
For any one who is not familiar with Sebastião Salgado, he is a Latin American social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has traveled all over the globe for his photographic work, capturing so many elements of life, this collection focuses on Migration.
Capturing the demographic change of the world around us, from wars, natural disasters, environmental degradation and the huge raise in the global population, following Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, and many others. The images, when entering your mind they don't want to leave, ever. They are stunning, beautiful, heartbreaking, uncomfortable, disturbing, but most important, they are important, and rise so many questions on how the developed world should be doing far much more to help. Absolutely shot every time to perfection. He is photographic genius, a man who has touched the lives of those who live in horror and bloodshed. The scope of what he is able to capture just goes beyond words, so here I will stop.
Capturing the demographic change of the world around us, from wars, natural disasters, environmental degradation and the huge raise in the global population, following Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, and many others. The images, when entering your mind they don't want to leave, ever. They are stunning, beautiful, heartbreaking, uncomfortable, disturbing, but most important, they are important, and rise so many questions on how the developed world should be doing far much more to help. Absolutely shot every time to perfection. He is photographic genius, a man who has touched the lives of those who live in horror and bloodshed. The scope of what he is able to capture just goes beyond words, so here I will stop.
October 28, 2025
Sobering and devastating photography.
November 2, 2012
Banker sees the effects of money and poverty in the world and becomes one of the greatest photographers of ALL TIME. You've seen many of these images before without realizing it because Salgado can make the worst conditions in the world into a beautiful composition. I had the opportunity to get a signed copy of this book when I saw him speak at Town Hall in Seattle, as well as seeing these images projected 40 ft wide on the screen. He rarely talks about the photography, but rather the subject matter. Truly a master and definitely his best book. BUY IT TODAY.
June 18, 2025
Transfixing. Hard. Absorbing.
In the 1990s Sebastião Salgado documented the history of human migration in 35 countries: people fleeing wars, genocide, poverty; people following a dream of a better life or just the hope of finding drinkable water or rudimentary medical care.
People were phagocytized by jungles of cement or dirt, deserts and seas. People were forgotten in the circles of human indifference, walking abysmal distances of miles with nothing but strength and faith to keep them going. Not even that.
The human condition in Exodus tears you apart. Each photo, in a different pamphlet, is historically and geographically contextualised, explained.
Exodus is a historical testament, a fundamental book for understanding how we got to the new century with such an embarrassing record of refugees and people possessing nothing but fear and deprivation. People with no outlooks.
Amidst the horrors of history, Salgado produced a body of work that is almost impossible to match.
And, in most of his frames, there is a light that only poets at heart can catch.
In the 1990s Sebastião Salgado documented the history of human migration in 35 countries: people fleeing wars, genocide, poverty; people following a dream of a better life or just the hope of finding drinkable water or rudimentary medical care.
People were phagocytized by jungles of cement or dirt, deserts and seas. People were forgotten in the circles of human indifference, walking abysmal distances of miles with nothing but strength and faith to keep them going. Not even that.
The human condition in Exodus tears you apart. Each photo, in a different pamphlet, is historically and geographically contextualised, explained.
Exodus is a historical testament, a fundamental book for understanding how we got to the new century with such an embarrassing record of refugees and people possessing nothing but fear and deprivation. People with no outlooks.
Amidst the horrors of history, Salgado produced a body of work that is almost impossible to match.
And, in most of his frames, there is a light that only poets at heart can catch.
March 6, 2019
Sencillamente descomunal. Las fotografías y el relato de estas. Aunque puedo comprender la crítica que en ocasiones se hace a Salgado: compaginar la belleza de esas fotos con la dureza de las vidas que relatan me genera una sensación extraña. Algo así como de culpabilidad por disfrutar del libro.
November 18, 2018
In this collection, Sebastião Salgado photographed the moving human populations of the earth. Across the globe, people move to flee war and poverty, to seek work, or to avoid famine or drought. Salgado photographs the conditions they're fleeing, the route they take and where they end up. This collection is a record of "humanity in transition" and all the issues that predicate and come along with that transition. Salgado's work is hard to view sometimes. Looking at the photos in this book was important for me and revealed the world in a new, clear, and sometimes disturbing light.
August 2, 2021
This is a well documented photography book that tell the story of human migration around the world at the end of 20 century and beginning of the 21 st century. Moreover Salgado has a book inside that explains picture by picture. I read the book every morning 4 to 6 pictures at the time and the explanation of Salgado. The book helps to understand the circumstances of migration and helps to think that as humans we need humanizing immigration laws. Most of times immigrants are criminalized and abused.
February 12, 2026
Se me ha hecho bastante desigual las partes del libro, aunque todas son buenas.
Me atrevería a decir que aquí he visto algunas de las mejores fotos de mi vida.
Muy interesante el libro y el tema también, las migraciones son un tema que me preocupa.
Recomiendo sin duda mirar si está en una biblioteca cerca de vuestra casa y echarle un ojo, puede ayudar a conocer cosas bastante importantes.
Me atrevería a decir que aquí he visto algunas de las mejores fotos de mi vida.
Muy interesante el libro y el tema también, las migraciones son un tema que me preocupa.
Recomiendo sin duda mirar si está en una biblioteca cerca de vuestra casa y echarle un ojo, puede ayudar a conocer cosas bastante importantes.
June 10, 2025
Beautiful photography, as always. But also heartbreaking and sobering. I don't often read introductions, but Salgado's words are worth reading -- and sharing.
This work ties in well with the final unit on globalization in OER World History.
Rest in power, Sebastião Salgado.
This work ties in well with the final unit on globalization in OER World History.
Rest in power, Sebastião Salgado.
January 16, 2021
Stunning collection. Need say no more.
August 15, 2007
This collection of photographs of forced human migration contains amoung the most painfully beautiful photos I have ever seen. A gift, during a time of great personal disappointment, these photos tend to remind one of their own great good fortune in being a middle class American.
September 4, 2011
This is a phenomenal volume of black and white photographs by Salgado. The documentation of refugees and their displacement is done with compassion, sensitivity, and power. If you are unfamiliar with his work you can google him but the google images don't come close to his volume of photographs!
January 31, 2016
As always, a powerful portrait of the world. Beautiful, haunting photographs with stories and descriptions to match. A little jumpy at times from one part of the world to another, but an amazing collection of how people move, responding to change and inevitably creating more.
November 15, 2020
Large-scale photographs of migrants/refugees - desperate humans trying to improve their lives.
The book is organized into 4 sections: displaced people in different locations, a specifically African section, rural flight to urban centers in Latin America, and Asia's recent giant cities.
The book is organized into 4 sections: displaced people in different locations, a specifically African section, rural flight to urban centers in Latin America, and Asia's recent giant cities.
July 11, 2008
Su mirada es magnífica
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February 6, 2011I've been wanting to get my hands on this one forever...
July 15, 2012
Astonishing. This book opened my eyes to the refugees of my generation. I highly recommend this book.
May 12, 2021
stunning photographs: from the familial, to the teeming masses of humanity, and the horrors
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