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It is no longer active and has been filled up with water, leaving a highly polluted lake.All images: Sebastião Salgado unless otherwise noted.Most visited arts non-profit online. The huge hole, the equivalent size of two Maracanã Stadiums (a soccer stadium in Rio with room for 200,000 people) put together, is now a small lagoon.
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Because of his continuous use of black and white in most of his photographs, Salgado may very well be one of the few classic photographers in the world that deals with humane tradition.The 28 photographs that Salgado took of the mine were also to be part of a larger series titled Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986The Serra Pelada gold mine existed from 1980 to 1986.
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The entrance of the abandoned mine, top.
Serra Pelada refers to a series of photographs that were taken in 1986 depicting endless numbers of mine workers distributed on various parts of a tall gold mining cliff.
Gold, Art Edition, ‘Brasil, 1986’ US$ 6.000 "In his staggering images of the Serra Pelada gold mines, Salgado documented the limits of human endurance – and revived black and white reportage."
At age 29, after starting his career as a Marxist economist, he discovered the incredible power this medium has as a language which needed no translation, and decided to use photography as his way of expression.
Some of the above-ground sections of the mine are now flooded, left, while the former offices of Colossus Minerals are strewn with documents and other detritus left by the company when it exited the site.
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Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada Gold Mine, Brazil, 1986Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior is a Brazilian social documentary The purpose of his photography has always been to expose the secrets of marginalized or remote places; places that are too inaccessible and off the beaten path that people do not even know that they exist on earth.
Estimate £80,000–120,000.