Sebastião Salgado. Gold, Art Edition, ‘Brasil, 1986’ (English) (SA)

This Art Edition (No. 1–100) includes the gelatin silver print Brasil, 1986, numbered and signed by Sebastião Salgado. The photograph encapsulates the sheer scale and nightmarish theater of the open-cast mine—a stark encounter with one of Salgado's most important historical documents. The edition also includes the signed and numbered hardcover volume Gold, housed in a clamshell box.

For a decade, Serra Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world’s largest open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling conditions. Today, Brazil’s gold rush is merely the stuff of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained regrets—and Sebastião Salgado’s photographs. This signed edition gathers his black-and-white portfolio in grand-scale, museum-quality reproductions.