Sebastião Salgado. GENESIS, Art Edition No. 1–100 ‘Two Mursi Women, Omo Valley, Ethiopia’ (English) (AP)

This Art Edition (No. 1–100) includes the gelatin silver print Two Mursi Women, Omo Valley, Ethiopia (2007), signed by Sebastião Salgado and printed on Ilford FB Warmtone paper. The accompanying two-volume SUMO-sized tome, designed and edited by Lélia Wanick Salgado, is numbered and signed by Sebastião Salgado. Leather-bound, it is presented with a cherry wood veneer bookstand designed by Tadao Ando and a clothbound caption book explaining each stunning shot.

Genesis is conceived as a monumental “love letter to the planet,” celebrating the Earth in its most pristine and precious state. In characteristic monochrome, Salgado captures sublime scenes of nature, animals, and indigenous peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of the modern world.