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Terra: Struggle of the Landless Book

"Because death belongs to all, so too should life," observes Portuguese writer José Saramago in a preface to this remarkable volume of black-and-white images. But death is easy and life is hard in Sebastião Salgado's native Brazil, where exploitation of labor and mechanization of agriculture have combined to paint a bleak future for the country's rural population. Even the faces of small children are clouded with despair in this book, which is at once a testament to human courage and a powerful argument for agrarian reform--a long-promised and long-delayed reform that has led to a bloody struggle to take possession of unused land in private hands. Read More

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  • Product Description

    This work represents the first part of Sebastiao Salgado's project to chart the displacement of peoples across geographical and political boundries. In a series of photographs, Salgado shows the efforts of Brazilian peasants to survive in the face of joblessness and extreme poverty and to reclaim the land they see as their natural heritage. Introduced by the Portuguese writer Jose Saramango and accompanied by the poems of Brazilian composer and singer Chico Buarque de Hollanda, "Terra" provides a photographic record of the struggles of the "landless" of Brazil.

  • 0714836362
  • 9780714836362
  • Sebastiao Salgado
  • 1 July 1997
  • Phaidon Press Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 143
  • illustrated edition
  • Illustrated
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