About The Work
In his recognizably lustrous black and white style, acclaimed photojournalist Sebastião Salgado captures the natural beauty of environments and communities around the world in their unindustrialized state. Dinka group at Pagarau, Southern Sudan depicts a group of Dinka shepherds tending to their herd of Ankole-Watusi cattle, dust clouding the surrounding desert air. The shadowed intensity of light in this photograph resonates with the artist’s adherence to simplicity, yet also contributes to the eerie, otherworldly quality of the image, which appears almost hyper-real. As is the case with much of Salgado’s work, the viewer is granted access to a usually unseen ancient cultures and traditions.
About Sebastião Salgado
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: The Artspace Group Show: Money
- Interviews & Features: Seven Magnum Photobooks That Changed Photography by Making Art Out of Life
- Art 101: How to Start an Amazing Black-and-White Photography Collection
- Interviews & Features: 10 of the Best Artworks at Art Basel 2016
- Interviews & Features: How to Understand Sebastião Salgado's Exquisite—and Harrowing—Photographs of Nature's Splendor
Photograph
Gelatin silver print
20.00 x 24.00 in
50.8 x 61.0 cm
This work is signed, titled and dated on verso.
About The Work
In his recognizably lustrous black and white style, acclaimed photojournalist Sebastião Salgado captures the natural beauty of environments and communities around the world in their unindustrialized state. Dinka group at Pagarau, Southern Sudan depicts a group of Dinka shepherds tending to their herd of Ankole-Watusi cattle, dust clouding the surrounding desert air. The shadowed intensity of light in this photograph resonates with the artist’s adherence to simplicity, yet also contributes to the eerie, otherworldly quality of the image, which appears almost hyper-real. As is the case with much of Salgado’s work, the viewer is granted access to a usually unseen ancient cultures and traditions.
About Sebastião Salgado
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: The Artspace Group Show: Money
- Interviews & Features: Seven Magnum Photobooks That Changed Photography by Making Art Out of Life
- Art 101: How to Start an Amazing Black-and-White Photography Collection
- Interviews & Features: 10 of the Best Artworks at Art Basel 2016
- Interviews & Features: How to Understand Sebastião Salgado's Exquisite—and Harrowing—Photographs of Nature's Splendor
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