Gold Mine, Serra Pelada, Brazil
- Title:
- Gold Mine, Serra Pelada, Brazil
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
Landscape and the Environment - Creator:
- Salgado, Sebastião
- Creation Date:
- 1986
- ID Number:
- 2000.025.001
- File Name:
- 2000.025.001.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Gold mines
laborers
Labor rights
Serra Pelada
Brazil - Measurement:
- 40 x 49.9 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Looking down into an active pit mine across ladders of people hauling material to the surface. Cutting across the frame from the lower right to the upper left are two wood and rope ladders, completely laden with people from top to bottom and side to side carrying cloth bundles on their backs, tensioned with cloth around their heads. Beyond the ladders to the right we can see further down into the mine. The active lip of the mine has a thick half circle of people around it, and more approaching from the top corner of the image. In the foreground are two people nearing the top of a ladder.
- Notes:
- Matted gelatin silver print.
Salgado is just one of the various Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers whose work is held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. - Cite As:
- Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian, born 1944), Gold mine, Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986. Gelatin silver print, 15 3/4 x 19 5/8 in. (40 x 49.9 cm). Acquired through the generosity of Jennifer, Gale, and Ira Drukier, 2000.025.001.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
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