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Sebastião Salgado

A Moment of Rest, Serra Pelada Mine

Description

Maker

Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian, b. 1944)

Title

A Moment of Rest, Serra Pelada Mine

Year

1986

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

silver print

Dimensions

Image: 30.5 x 45.1 cm (12 x 17 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated on verso in pencil, LR:S. Salgado / Brasil - 1986

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

1991.103

Type

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 15: Green

RISD Museum’s Manual 15 Celebrates Green

New life is always shown to us through mokingpu, the color green-the light green stems of rabbitbrush, one of the few colors seen the winter; the tender green shoots of new corn that emerge in the spring against the backdrop of the dry brown earth. Green offers hope. Green represents life.

-Susan Sekaquaptewa

A welcome splash of color after a long winter, the RISD Museum’s fifteenth issue of Manual is awash in shades of green, celebrating the color's myriad associations with nature and growth, environmentalism and sustainable practices, newness and hope (as well as poison and currency) and delving into the histories of specific pigments and processes. Manual 15 opens with an introductory essay by Hopi grower Susan Sekaquaptewa, who details the soft hues of the flora of Northern Arizona. “You appreciate plants more when you develop a relationship with them,” she explains.

This issue of Manual is supported in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional generous support is provided by the RISD Museum Associates and Sotheby’s.

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Collective Recollection
Jul 27, 2018 – Jan 20, 2019

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In documentary and journalistic photographs, depictions of crowds can underscore the gravity of dire circumstances. Workers haul sacks of earth out of the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil. Sebastião Salgado’s presentation highlights the appalling conditions and chaotic danger of the operation, which employed more than 100,000 workers at its peak.

Historias
Latin American Works on Paper
Aug 09, 2013 – Jan 05, 2014

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Sebastião Salgado turns his camera on a wide range of social issues all around the world, from famine in the Sahel region of Africa to war in Angola to working conditions in South America. Salgado’s best-known project focused on the Serra Pelada gold mine in northern Brazil, near the mouth of the Amazon River. At its peak, Serra Pelada employed at least 100,000 workers, making it one of the largest mines in the world. Salgado’s images show the backbreaking and hazardous conditions the miners endure, heightening international awareness of their suffering.

Recent Acquisitions
Contemporary Works on Paper
Jun 20, 1997 – Sep 07, 1997
"De Donde Vengo"
Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art
Mar 15, 1996 – Apr 28, 1996
Recent Acquisitions in the Siskind Center
Sep 10, 1993 – Jan 09, 1994

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Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian, b. 1944)
A Moment of Rest, Serra Pelada Mine, 1986
Gelatin silver print
Image: 30.5 x 45.1 cm (12 x 17 3/4 inches)
Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art 1991.103

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