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Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity | The New Yorker

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The photojournalist documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never, I never, photograph the misery.”

Save this story Save this story Sebastião Salgado, who died last week, of leukemia, at the age of eighty-one, was among the most famous documentary photographers of the twentieth century. Throughout more than four decades of epic, globe-spanning projects, many of which were both self-assigned and largely self-funded, he forged an instantly recognizable aesthetic in a field that tends to shy away from overt authorial touch. His pictures were sweepingly cinematic, symbolically loaded, and unabashedly gorgeous, even when he was photographing some of the greatest human horrors of the past century,

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