Full name: Terra: Struggle of the Landless

Author: Sebastião Salgado Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780714837000 0714837008

This volume tells the story of the forced migration of the Brazilian peasants and their struggle to survive in the face of joblessness and extreme poverty. In a series of photographs Salgado shows the efforts of the peasants to reclaim the arable land they see as their natural heritage, and recounts how this fight has often resulted in bloodshed. He was present at a farm in the state of Para on 17 April 1996 when nineteen peasants were massacred by soldiers during a demonstration. His empathy and understanding of the victims' plight and of human nature unbowed in the face of terrible adversity shines forth in these photographs, which are introduced by the Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, and accompanied by poems by the Brazilian composer and popular singer Chico Buarque de Hollanda. Similar books: The Mind's Eye by Henri Cartier-Bresson The Art of Photography by Bruce Barnbaum The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski Learning to See Creatively by Bryan Peterson Within the Frame by David duChemin Digital Photography Masterclass by Tom Ang Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers by Christopher Grey Exiles by Josef Koudelka The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore Photography and the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson Understanding Shutter Speed by Bryan Peterson John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide by John Shaw Henri Cartier-Bresson by Clement Cheroux The Photography Reader by Liz Wells Photography for the joy of it by Freeman Patterson