RARE PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAZILIAN MASTER SEBASTIÃO SALGADO SIGNED - TITLED "ETHIOPIE" - DATED 1984 - PUBLISHED Start Price USD 4,000.00 Current Price USD 4,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, May 15, 2008 End Time Thursday, May 22, 2008 Location New York, New York See more about 'RARE PHOTOGRAPH BY BRAZILIAN MASTER SEBASTIÃO SALGADO' Description You are bidding on a fantastic original Framed, Signed, Dated and Titled Photograph, by Master Brazilian Photographer  Sebastião Salgado (Brazil, b. 1944)   THIS IS A VERY RARE IMAGE BY THE ARTIST.   SEBASTIÃO SALGADO (Brazil, B. 1944) There are hundreds of links, notes and articles on the web about this amazing photographer. Feel free to do your own search and learn more about his amazing life and art (artnet, artprice, etc) and most importantly how much his work sells for worldwide. This Photograph has a very reasonable price in comparison to the prices offered at Art Galleries for his work ($7,000+) and Auction Houses (some at $5,000+).   I have enclosed below an excellet biography about his life and art history.   I bought it at a very well known Auction House in New York and this image has been in my collection for a while.   Here are the details about this image:   Sebastião Salgado Brazil, b. 1944   Signed on Verso "S.Salgado"   Dated 1984   Titled on Verso "Ethiopie"   Image Size:                 17 1/5" High x 11 3/4” Wide – 44.4cm High x 29.8cm Wide Sheet:                          20" High x 16" Wide - 50.8cm High x 40.7cm Wide Frame:                        25” High x 21” wide / 63.5cm high x 53.3cm wide   OFFERED FRAMED   CONDITION REPORT: The overall condition is excellent.   (See pictures and feel free to ask me for any additional images). Overall the condition of the frame and matt is also very good. This is a basic wood frame.   PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM OFFERING USPS PRIORITY MAIL BUT STRONGLY SUGGEST BUYER TO HAVE IT SHIPPED BY FEDEX OR UPS BECAUSE THEY WILL FULLY INSURE THE ITEM (USPS IS LIMITED UP TO $1,000) IF THE BUYER'S CHOICE IS USPS I WILL ONLY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAXIMUM INSURANCE AMOUNT ($1,000)   PLEASE READ THIS: I am an extremely honest person and have excellent reputation and feedback on ebay (feel free to check it). I will make everything possible to make any ebay transaction a smooth and positive experience. I will also try to describe the item as accurate as possible. Feel free to ask me any questions and for additional photos.   I’ll be offering other important images, paintings, photographs and antiques on ebay.   I only offer unique high quality items bought from very diverse sources, collections and estates.   Bid with confidence.   Good Luck     Sebastião Salgado Sebastião Salgado (born February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a Brazilian documentary photographer and photojournalist. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs. He chose to abandon a career as an economist and switched to photography in 1973, working initially on news assignments before veering more towards documentary-type work. Salgado initially worked with the Paris based agency Gamma, but in 1979 he joined the international cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos. He left Magnum in 1994 and formed his own agency, Amazonas Images, in Paris to represent his work. He is particularly noted for his documentary photography of workers in less developed nations. Longtime gallery director Hal Gould considers Salgado to be the most important photographer of the early 21st century, and gave him his first show in the United States. Salgado works on long term, self assigned projects many of which have been published as books: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, and Migrations. The latter two are mammoth collections with hundreds of images each from all around the world. His most famous pictures are of a gold mine in Brazil called Serra Pelada. He is presently working on a project called Genesis photographing the landscape, flora and fauna of places on earth that have not been taken over by man. Most recently, Salgado has displayed in September and October 2007 his pictures of Coffee workers from India, Guatemala, Ethiopia and Brazil at the Brazilian Embassy in London. The aim of the project was to raise public awareness of the origins of the popular drink. PUBLICATIONS An Uncertain Grace (1992) Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age (1993), includes photos from 26 countries Terra (1997) Migrations (2000), includes photos from 39 countries The Children: Refugees and Migrants (2000) Sahel: The End of the Road (2004) Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado is one of the most respected photojournalists working today. Appointed a UNICEF Special Representative on 3 April 2001, he has dedicated himself to chronicling the lives of the world's dispossessed, a work that has filled ten books and many exhibitions and for which he has won numerous awards in Europe and in the Americas. "I hope that the person who visits my exhibitions, and the person who comes out, are not quite the same," says Mr. Salgado. "I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world." Educated as an economist, Mr. Salgado, 57, began his photography career in 1973. His first book, Other Americas, about the poor in Latin America, was published in 1986. This was followed by Sahel: Man in Distress (also published in 1986), the result of a 15 month long collaboration with Medecins San Frontières covering the drought in northern Africa. From 1986 to 1992 he documented manual labour world-wide, resulting in a book and exhibition called Workers, a monumental undertaking that confirmed his reputation as a photo documentarian of the first order. From 1993 to 1999, he turned his attention to the global phenomenon of mass displacement of people, resulting in the internationally acclaimed books Migrations and The Children published in 2000. In the introduction to Migrations, he wrote, "More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship…." Working entirely in a black-and-white format, Mr. Salgado's respect for his subjects and his determination to draw out the larger meaning of what is happening to them, has created an imagery that testifies to the fundamental dignity of all humanity while simultaneously protesting its violation by war, poverty and other injustices. Over the years Mr. Salgado has collaborated generously with international humanitarian organizations including UNICEF, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR), the World Health Organization (WHO), Medecins Sans Frontières and Amnesty International. With his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado, he is presently supporting a reforestation and community revitalization project in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. In September 2000, supported by the United Nations and UNICEF, Mr. Salgado exhibited 90 portraits of displaced children taken from his book The Children exhibited at UN Headquarters in New York. These stunning photographs bear solemn witness to the 30 million people throughout the world, mostly children and women, who are without a permanent home. In other collaborations with UNICEF, Mr. Salgado has donated reproduction rights to several of his photographs to support the Global Movement for Children and to illustrate a book by Mozambique's Graça Machel, updating her 1996 report as United Nations Special Representative on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children. Presently, in a joint project with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, he is documenting the global campaign to eradicate this disease. Mr. Salgado lives in Paris, France, with his family. His wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado, directs their company, Amazonas Images, and has designed his major books and exhibitions. Place a Bid!