Sebastião Salgado: encontro com a fotografia humanista francesa em Outras Américas

Abstract

The brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado is known worldwide for the humanitarian images he has recorded throughout his career. With a background in economics, Salgado experienced the dictatorship in Brazil on the decade of 1960, fact that led him do lead the country with his wife and search security on Parisian soil. The change transformed not only his personal life, but also brought to light the gaze of one of the most renowned photographers in the world. Salgado started his photojournalism work in France, worked at the Magnum agency, in addition to having contact with other major international photography agencies and with the works of Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Sabine Weiss, among other photographers, many of them representatives of humanist photography french. Throughout his career, the photographer directed his production to documentary photography and, in many of his images, the approximation with some of the concepts of French humanist photography is perceptible. This article, which forms part of the research developed by the authors, investigates how humanism is presented in the photography of Sebastião Salgado, based on the analysis of his first authorial work published in the book Outras Américas.